Editors-in-Chief:  Weilun Yin, Beijing Forestry University, China Klaus v. Gadow, University of Göttingen, Germany
CAO Jin-zhen, WANG Yi, XU Wei-yue, WANG Lei. Preliminary study of viscoelastic properties of MAPP-modified wood flour/polypropylene composites[J]. Forest Ecosystems, 2010, 12(2): 85-89. DOI: 10.1007/s11632-010-0016-3
Citation: CAO Jin-zhen, WANG Yi, XU Wei-yue, WANG Lei. Preliminary study of viscoelastic properties of MAPP-modified wood flour/polypropylene composites[J]. Forest Ecosystems, 2010, 12(2): 85-89. DOI: 10.1007/s11632-010-0016-3

Preliminary study of viscoelastic properties of MAPP-modified wood flour/polypropylene composites

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This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 30871966).

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  • Received Date: 21 October 2009
  • Rev Recd Date: 21 January 2010
  • Viscoelastic properties of maleated polypropylene (MAPP)-modified wood flour/polypropylene composites (WPC) were investigated by both a compression stress relaxation method and dynamic mechanical analyses (DMA). Three wood to polymer ratios (40:60, 60:40, and 80:20) and five MAPP loading levels (0, 1, 2, 4 and 8%) were used to study their effects on the viscoelastic properties of MAPP-WPC. The results show that: 1) higher wood to polymer ratio corresponds to higher stress relaxation levels for unmodified WPC. The modification with MAPP has an obvious effect on the stress relaxation of MAPP-WPC at higher wood to polymer ratios (60:40 and 80:20), but almost no effect at the 40:60 wood to polymer ratio. The optimal MAPP loading level for the wood to polymer ratio of 60:40 appears at 1%; 2) the storage modulus reaches its maximum at a MAPP loading level of 1% for wood to polymer ratios of 40:60 and 60:40, while for the 80:20 wood to polymer ratio, a higher storage modulus is observed at higher MAPP loading levels, which is quite consistent with the stress relaxation results. The results suggested that a suitable loading level of MAPP has a positive effect on the viscoelastic properties of WPC at higher wood to polymer ratios. Excessive MAPP loading would have resulted in adverse effects.
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