Issue 7, 2011
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Green Chemistry

Preparation and characterization of optically transparent chitin nanofiber/(meth)acrylic resin composites

Shinsuke Ifuku,*a   Shin Morooka,a   Antonio Norio Nakagaito,a   Minoru Morimotob  and  Hiroyuki Saimotoa  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Tottori University, Tottori, Japan
E-mail: sifuku@chem.tottori-u.ac.jp
Fax: +81 857 31 5592
Tel: + 81 857 31 5592

b Research Center for Bioscience and Technology, Tottori University, Tottori, Japan

Abstract

Optically transparent chitin nanofiber composites were fabricated with 11 different types of (meth)acrylic resins. Chitin nanofibers significantly increased the Young's moduli and the tensile strengths, and decreased the thermal expansion of all (meth)acrylic resins due to the reinforcement effect of chitin nanofibers having an extended crystal structure.

Graphical abstract: Preparation and characterization of optically transparent chitin nanofiber/(meth)acrylic resin composites

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1GC15321H
Article type
Paper
Submitted
25 Mar 2011
Accepted
10 May 2011
First published
08 Jun 2011

Green Chem., 2011,13, 1708-1711

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Preparation and characterization of optically transparent chitin nanofiber/(meth)acrylic resin composites

S. Ifuku, S. Morooka, A. Norio Nakagaito, M. Morimoto and H. Saimoto, Green Chem., 2011, 13, 1708 DOI: 10.1039/C1GC15321H

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