Expanding the potential for waste polyvinyl-alcohol.

Autor: Andrew J. Hunt, Vitaly L. Budarin, Simon W. Breeden, Avtar S. Matharu, James H. Clark
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Zdroj: Green Chemistry; Sep2009, Vol. 11 Issue 9, p1332-1336, 5p
Abstrakt: Expanded polyvinyl-alcohol (PVA) was successfully prepared using a similar process to that of starch expansion. The addition of an iodine solution was necessary to facilitate expansion and led to surface areas of up to 143.1 m2g−1. The use of recycled material from LCD screens required no additional iodine and produced an expanded material with high surface areas (95.0 m2g−1) and total pore volumes (0.56 cm3g−1). The PVA–iodine complexes were found to better mimic the interactions between amylose and amylopectin in starch expansion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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