PMID- 31390720
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20201001
IS  - 2073-4360 (Electronic)
IS  - 2073-4360 (Linking)
VI  - 11
IP  - 8
DP  - 2019 Aug 6
TI  - Structural Characterization and Analysis of High-Strength Laminated Composites 
      from Recycled Newspaper and HDPE.
LID - 10.3390/polym11081311 [doi]
LID - 1311
AB  - Recycled newspaper (NP) shows excellent potential as a reinforcement for polymer 
      composites. Herein, high-strength laminated composites were prepared by using NP 
      laminas as reinforcement and high-density polyethylene (HDPE) films as matrix. 
      Physical and mechanical properties of the laminated composites were measured. It 
      was found that the flexural strength of the composites had a good linear 
      relationship to its density, with R(2) = 0.9853. The flexural and tensile 
      strength of the composites at the maximum density (1.40 g/cm(3)) reached up to 
      95.6 +/- 2.4 MPa and 99.4 +/- 0.8 MPa, respectively. SEM results showed that NP layer 
      inside the composite became compact at the hot pressing time of 40 min, because 
      the melted HDPE permeated into the NP layers to bond the NP fibers. Quantitative 
      description of the composite porosity was conducted according to the density of 
      the composite. The 24-h water absorption of the composite was highly related to 
      its porosity, with R(2) = 0.8994. This study reveals that density of laminated 
      composites is an important parameter, which could be used to forecast the 
      mechanical strength, and its derived value, porosity of the composites, could be 
      used to predict the water absorption behavior of the composite.
FAU - Zheng, Binwei
AU  - Zheng B
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6791-3523
AD  - College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 
      510642, China.
FAU - Hu, Chuanshuang
AU  - Hu C
AD  - College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 
      510642, China. cshu@scau.edu.cn.
FAU - Guan, Litao
AU  - Guan L
AD  - College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 
      510642, China.
FAU - Gu, Jin
AU  - Gu J
AD  - College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 
      510642, China.
FAU - Guo, Huizhang
AU  - Guo H
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9695-5092
AD  - Wood Materials Science, Institute for Building Materials, ETH Zurich, 
      Stefano-Franscini-Platz, 38093 Zurich, Switzerland.
FAU - Zhang, Weiwei
AU  - Zhang W
AD  - College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 
      510642, China. zhangww@scau.edu.cn.
AD  - Guangxi Key Laboratory of Clean Pulp & Papermaking and Pollution Control, Nanning 
      530004, China. zhangww@scau.edu.cn.
LA  - eng
GR  - 2017B020238003/Guangdong Science and Technology Department/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20190806
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Polymers (Basel)
JT  - Polymers
JID - 101545357
PMC - PMC6723509
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - density
OT  - laminated composites
OT  - microstructure
OT  - porosity
OT  - recycled newspaper
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2019/08/09 06:00
MHDA- 2019/08/09 06:01
PMCR- 2019/08/06
CRDT- 2019/08/09 06:00
PHST- 2019/07/03 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2019/07/22 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2019/07/23 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2019/08/09 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2019/08/09 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/08/09 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2019/08/06 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - polym11081311 [pii]
AID - polymers-11-01311 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/polym11081311 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Polymers (Basel). 2019 Aug 6;11(8):1311. doi: 10.3390/polym11081311.