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Properties of polyurethane (PUR) films prepared from liquefied wood (LW) and ethylene glycol (EG)

  • Wen-Jau Lee EMAIL logo , En-Shao Kuo , Chung-Yu Chao and Yu-Pin Kao
From the journal Holzforschung

Abstract

The wood of Cryptomeria japonica D. Don was liquefied in ethylene glycol (EG) with sulfuric acid (H2SO4) as a catalyst at 150°C for 60 min. The liquefied wood (LW)- and EG-based polyester polyols (EG-Polyest.-ol) were synthesized by reacting LW and EG with adipic acid (AA), respectively. Polyurethane (PUR) resins were made by mixing Polyest.-ol with isocyanate. The results show that LW-Polyest.-ol is a suitable raw material for PUR. The PUR films prepared with LW-Polyest.-ol have higher tensile strength with less elongation at breaking point than that with EG-Polyest.-ol. According to dynamic thermomechanical analysis, the PUR films prepared with EG-Polyest.-ol have a homogeneous molecular structure, whereas a phase separation has been found for those made with LW-Polyest.-ol. Thermal gravimetric analysis showed that the thermal degradation of LW-PUR films only starts at higher temperature than that of EG-PUR.


Corresponding author: Wen-Jau Lee, Department of Forestry, National Chung-Hsing University No. 250, Kuo Kuang Road, Taichung, 402 Taiwan, e-mail:

Acknowledgments

We thank the Forestry Bureau of Council of Agriculture for the financial support [101AS-13.4.4-FB-e1(1)].

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Received: 2014-5-5
Accepted: 2014-9-26
Published Online: 2014-10-18
Published in Print: 2015-7-1

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