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Renewable Alloys, Compounds, Composites, and Additives
Abstract
This chapter deals with various ways used to increase the renewable carbon content of compounds by the following:
• Alloying or mixing several renewable polymers
• using renewable fillers, natural fibers (NFs), plasticizers, and other renewable additives
• developing new forms of products
• expanding use of renewable plastics thanks to glass fibers (GFs) and other additives.
Two main ways are investigated for alloying: on the one hand, use of several natural sourced polymers [starch, polylactic acid (PLA),…] and on the other hand, alloying of renewable polymers (starch, PLA, algae,…) and fossil products, which leads to hybrids. There are a multitude of grades with more or less defined ...
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