{"id":1955,"date":"2016-04-19T12:03:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T12:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2016-04-19T12:03:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T12:03:07","slug":"new-castor-oil-based-antistatic-and-anticorrosive-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2016\/04\/new-castor-oil-based-antistatic-and-anticorrosive-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"New Castor Oil based Antistatic and Anticorrosive Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent study has found the use of castor oil as antistatic and anticorrosive materials.<\/p>\n<p>Antistatic property is defined as the fast dissipation of static electricity (static charge). It is evaluated using two measures \u2013 surface resistance and half-life. The lower the surface resistance (\u03a9), the higher the antistatic property; and the shorter the half-life (s), the higher the antistatic property.<\/p>\n<p>A previous study conducted by scientists from <a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007%2FBF03218404\">Korea<\/a> in 2004, has found that waterborne -polyurethane coating materials containing conductive polyaniline blend films showed <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1524 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/castor-oil-polyurethane-150x150.gif\" alt=\"castor oil polyurethane\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>reduced antistatic half-life.<\/p>\n<p>Now, scientists from Korea and India have prepared castor oil-based waterborne polyurethane\/polyaniline (COWPU\/PAni) conducting polymer blend films. The waterborne polyurethane synthesized from isophorone diisocyanate was reacted with castor oil to form prepolymers. Also, COWPU\/PAni hybrid dispersions were synthesized to make different conductive composites.<\/p>\n<p>Characteristic studies showed that COWPU\/PAni conducting blend films could be used as antistatic and anticorrosive coating materials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/pat.3797\/full\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent study has found the use of castor oil as antistatic and anticorrosive materials. Antistatic property is defined as the fast dissipation of static electricity (static charge). It is evaluated using two measures \u2013 surface resistance and half-life. The lower &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2016\/04\/new-castor-oil-based-antistatic-and-anticorrosive-materials\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,4,79],"tags":[121,112,101,206],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-castor-india-2","category-castor-oil-research","category-castor-oil-polymers","tag-castor-oil-polyurethanes","tag-castor-oil-research-2","tag-castor-polymers","tag-castor-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}