{"id":2041,"date":"2016-09-16T11:18:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T11:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/?p=2041"},"modified":"2016-09-16T11:18:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T11:18:23","slug":"new-castor-oilpcl-based-bio-pu-foam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2016\/09\/new-castor-oilpcl-based-bio-pu-foam\/","title":{"rendered":"New Castor Oil\/PCL Based Bio-PU Foam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Korea performed an experiment to fabricate castor oil\/PCL based bio-polyurethane foam reinforced with nano cellulose. PU foam based on biomaterials <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\" \/>was investigated to replace traditional petroleum-based polyol. Polyols were synthesized from castor oil (CO) and polycaprolactone (PCL). In addition, the effects of the nanocellulose on the thermal and mechanical properties of CO-based PU foam were investigated.<\/p>\n<p>Results showed that addition of the nanocellulose could be an effective way to improve the mechanical and thermal properties of PU foams.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/pc.24160\/full\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Korea performed an experiment to fabricate castor oil\/PCL based bio-polyurethane foam reinforced with nano cellulose. PU foam based on biomaterials was investigated to replace traditional petroleum-based polyol. Polyols were synthesized from castor oil (CO) and polycaprolactone (PCL). In &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2016\/09\/new-castor-oilpcl-based-bio-pu-foam\/\">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":[4,79],"tags":[121,112,101],"class_list":["post-2041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-castor-oil-research","category-castor-oil-polymers","tag-castor-oil-polyurethanes","tag-castor-oil-research-2","tag-castor-polymers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041","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=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2042,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions\/2042"}],"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=2041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}