Kenaf polypropylene composites with high fiber load of 85 wt% were produced using glycerine as a processing aid and maleic anhydride-grafted (MAPP) compatibilizer/coupling agent. Commercially available MAPPs different molecular weights anhydride contents used to determine what properties the important achieve mechanical these highly filled composites. A homo-polymer random-polymer, compared mat...

In the present paper, many unsaturated polyesters has been synthesized using maleic anhydride, phthalic anhydride and succinic for esterification with new monomer [E)-1-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-3-(3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenyl) prop-2-en-1-one]. These were polymerized by condensation reaction . Their chemical structures characterized FTIR, 13C-NMR 1H NMR spectroscopy. Thermal properties have analysed Diff...

in this research work, the effects of natural fibers such as date palm fiber (df) and jute fiber (jf) on bending properties of polypropylene (pp)/ ethylene–propylene–diene–monomer (epdm) thermoplastic elastomers are investigated. for this purpose, the date palm and jute fibers at five levels of fiber weight fractions (0, 5, 10, 20 and 30 wt. %) are utilized during composite fabrication. maleic ...

Six well known drugs, captopril, metformin-HCl, metroniazole, nortriptyline-HCl, fluoxetine-HCl and betahistin-HCl, were grafted to poly(styrene-alt-maleic anhydride) (PSMA). Grafting was attained by combining of anhydride groups in the PSMA with therapeutic agents containing NH, OH or SH groups. The covalently grafted drugs were identified by infrared, (1)H NMR and UV-Vis spectroscopy. The dru...

Anhydride terminated polyisobutylene (PIB) oligomers were synthesized in a oneor two-step process from chlorine terminated oligomers. In the one-step process, chlorine functional oligomers were just heated in the presence of maleic anhydride (MA) for 12 h at 190°C without a catalyst. In the two-step process, the chlorine end functional groups were first converted by selective dehydrochlorinatio...

Exploiting biomass as an alternative to petrochemicals for the production of commodity plastics is vitally important if we are to become a more sustainable society. Here, we report a synthetic route for the production of terephthalic acid (TPA), the monomer of the widely used thermoplastic polymer poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET), from the biomass-derived starting material furfural. Biobased ...