{"id":2529,"date":"2017-09-21T05:09:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T05:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/?p=2529"},"modified":"2017-09-21T05:09:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T05:09:44","slug":"castable-polymers-made-from-castor-beans-could-replace-conventional-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2017\/09\/castable-polymers-made-from-castor-beans-could-replace-conventional-plastics\/","title":{"rendered":"Castable Polymers made from Castor Beans could Replace Conventional Plastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"standfirst\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Super-tough materials derived from inedible plants are lightweight, renewable and strong enough to use in vehicles<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"storytext\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A new polymer blend made from castor beans is stronger and lighter than conventional structural materials, and researchers say it could improve the safety and fuel efficiency of cars.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-44 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Castor-Oil-Seeds2.jpg\" alt=\"Castor-Oil-Seeds2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Castor beans are notorious for containing the poison\u00a0ricin, but it\u2019s possible to turn them into polyamide 11, a thermoplastic from the nylon family of polymers. Now, scientists from Japan have developed a super-strong polymer blend by mixing polyamide 11 with the common household plastic polypropylene, that could replace many of the plastics we use today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super-tough materials derived from inedible plants are lightweight, renewable and strong enough to use in vehicles A new polymer blend made from castor beans is stronger and lighter than conventional structural materials, and researchers say it could improve the safety &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2017\/09\/castable-polymers-made-from-castor-beans-could-replace-conventional-plastics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":44,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,79,55,26,25],"tags":[112,88,101],"class_list":["post-2529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-castor-oil-research","category-castor-oil-polymers","category-castor-plastics","category-castor-research","category-castor-toxin","tag-castor-oil-research-2","tag-castor-plastics-2","tag-castor-polymers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529","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=2529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2530,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions\/2530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}