Reactive extrusion (REx) combines mass and heat transport operations, which together with simultaneous chemical reactions taking place inside the extruder, modify the properties of existing polymers or generate new ones. ...

Poly(ethylene tereftalate) (PET) is a polymer highly susceptible to the hydrolytic reactions that occur during applications and mainly in thermomechanical processing. These reactions lead to the decrease of molecular weight ...

Polymer processing is a fundamental key to achieve the desired properties to reach the needs of polymer applications. Thus, it is important to understand how the processing can contribute to material characteristics during ...

Pectin and starch are edible, non-toxic, biodegradable and obtained from renewable sources. Also have the benefit to be easily cross-linked producing hydrogels. Reactive extrusion with edible citric acid and cross linking ...

The grafting reaction of maleic anhydride onto polypropylene by reactive extrusion, in presence of nanoclay, was studied. The organoclay (Cloisite 20A) was used as support for dicumyl peroxide (DCP), and different amounts ...

The data given below relates to the research paper entitled: “Eco-friendly films prepared from plantain flour/PCL blends under reactive extrusion conditions using zirconium octanoate as a catalyst”, recently published by ...

Molecular properties of high-density polyethylene resulting after its peroxide modification process depend not only on peroxide concentration and temperature but also on the molecular weight distribution and vinyl content ...

This paper presents a study of the in situ production of tantalum carbide nanodispersoids in a copper matrix. The copper matrix composites were produced by means of reactive milling in hexane (C6H14) followed by hot ...