Tenacious Epoxy Adhesives Prepared from Lignin-derived Stable Metabolic Intermediate

Toughening Epoxy Adhesives to Meet Today’s Challenges

There are many advantages that polymeric adhesives can offer compared to the more traditional methods of joining such as bolting, brazing, welding, mechanical fasteners, etc. and epoxy adhesives represent the most common type of structural adhesive. When polymerised, epoxy adhesives are amorphous and highly-crosslinked materials and this microstructure results in many useful properties for stru...

Skin Damage Due to Acrylic or Epoxy Adhesives

A Novel Botany Phenol Thinner Derived from Lignin and Its Application in Polymer Drilling Fluid

In this work, a novel thinner derived from natural botany Chinese Larch Tree was obtained by combination lignin with phenol using H2O2 as oxidant and the acting efficiency of lignosulfonate in the drilling fluids is greatly enhanced after oxidation with H2O2. Both the chemical structure and the adsorptive ability of the oxidation...

Epoxy functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes for improved adhesives

Three different types of epoxy-functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes (EpCNTs) were prepared by multiple covalent functionalization methods. The EpCNTs were characterized by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and Raman spectroscopy to confirm covalent functionalization. The effect of the different chemistries on the adhesive properties was compared to a neat c...

Epoxy thermosets from model mixtures of the lignin-to-vanillin process

Epoxy thermosets were prepared from mixtures of phenolics modelling the product stream of the ligninto-vanillin process. Vanillin is one of the only mono-aromatic compounds produced on an industrial scale from lignin. This process leads to mixtures of phenolic compounds. Isolation of pure vanillin is costly both economically and environmentally. The present work demonstrates that these purifica...