{"id":2092,"date":"2016-11-15T09:09:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T09:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2016-11-15T09:09:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T09:09:21","slug":"new-castor-oil-based-green-plasticizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2016\/11\/new-castor-oil-based-green-plasticizer\/","title":{"rendered":"New Castor Oil Based Green Plasticizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from India performed esterification of furfuryl alcohol and castor oil fatty acid at 3:1 molar ratio, by immobilized <em>Candida antarctica<\/em> Lipase B in a solvent free system.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-37 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/castor-oil-8000671-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"castor-oil-800067\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/castor-oil-8000671-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/castor-oil-8000671.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/> A maximum yield of ester was obtained. Performance of the FA-COFA ester plasticized Ethyl Cellulose (EC) films were evaluated by certain characteristic studies.<\/p>\n<p>Results showed that the furfuryl alcohol-castor oil fatty acid ester with significant plasticizing property at a certain concentration could act as a substitute for traditional plasticizer dibutyl phthalate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0144861716312462\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from India performed esterification of furfuryl alcohol and castor oil fatty acid at 3:1 molar ratio, by immobilized Candida antarctica Lipase B in a solvent free system. A maximum yield of ester was obtained. Performance of the FA-COFA ester &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2016\/11\/new-castor-oil-based-green-plasticizer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":37,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,55],"tags":[112,101],"class_list":["post-2092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-castor-oil-research","category-castor-plastics","tag-castor-oil-research-2","tag-castor-polymers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","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=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2093,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions\/2093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}