{"id":1178,"date":"2014-10-03T10:39:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T10:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2014-10-03T10:39:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T10:39:19","slug":"polyurethane-organoclay-nanocomposites-based-on-castor-oil-polyols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2014\/10\/polyurethane-organoclay-nanocomposites-based-on-castor-oil-polyols\/","title":{"rendered":"Polyurethane\u2013Organoclay Nanocomposites Based on Castor Oil Polyols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from University of Technology, Baghdad, have synthesized <a href=\"http:\/\/www.castoroil.in\/application\/castoroilbasedpolyurethanes.html\" target=\"_blank\">castor oil-based polyurethanes<\/a>\u2013organoclay (COPUs-Cloisite 30B) nanocomposites by mixing polypropylene glycol polyol and dehydrated castor oil (15\u00a0%), with C30B nanofillers at different weight percentages. Various analyses such as <a href=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Castor-OIl-Plant-by-davidad64.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1179\" src=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Castor-OIl-Plant-by-davidad64-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, Fourier scanning Electron Microscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-ray diffraction were performed to evaluate the physico-chemical properties of COPUs-Cloisite 30B. Thermal stability and tensile strength were found to improve upto ~30\u00a0C and ~240% respectively, with 5 wt% of C30B . These improved properties allow it to be used in coatings, adhesives and automotives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00289-014-1255-6#page-1\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a title=\"India \u2013 Researchers Develop Polyurethane Foams Using Castor Oil Polyols\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/cse?cx=007901521029559732954%3A5atwrcx9vlo&amp;cof=FORID%3A10&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=polyurethanes&amp;sa=Search#gsc.tab=0&amp;gsc.q=polyurethanes&amp;gsc.page=1\" target=\"_blank\">castoroil-based polyurethanes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from University of Technology, Baghdad, have synthesized castor oil-based polyurethanes\u2013organoclay (COPUs-Cloisite 30B) nanocomposites by mixing polypropylene glycol polyol and dehydrated castor oil (15\u00a0%), with C30B nanofillers at different weight percentages. Various analyses such as Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, Fourier &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2014\/10\/polyurethane-organoclay-nanocomposites-based-on-castor-oil-polyols\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,79,26],"tags":[121,112,84],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-castor-oil-derivatives","category-castor-oil-polymers","category-castor-research","tag-castor-oil-polyurethanes","tag-castor-oil-research-2","tag-castor-polyols"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}