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Synthesis and evaluation of epoxidized vegetable oleic acid as a novel environmental benign plasticizer for polyvinyl chloride |
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| Authors: | Shan Feng Pingping Jiang Pingbo Zhang Minjia Lu Zhixuan Cui Jie Pan Lingen Pan |
| Affiliation: | 1. R&D Department, Key Laboratory of Synthesis Biological Colloids, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
Contribution: Conceptualization (lead), Data curation (lead), Formal analysis (lead), Funding acquisition (equal), Investigation (lead), Methodology (lead), Software (lead), Validation (lead), Writing - original draft (lead);2. R&D Department, Key Laboratory of Synthesis Biological Colloids, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China;3. R&D Department, Key Laboratory of Synthesis Biological Colloids, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China Contribution: Investigation (supporting);4. R&D Department, Wuxi Jiasheng High-tech Modified Materials Co., Ltd., Wuxi, China Contribution: Investigation (supporting) |
| Abstract: | A bio-based plasticizers, acetyl-oleate triethylene glycol (AOT), was successfully synthesized by using oleic acid as a raw material through esterification, epoxidation, and acetylation. Its structure was analyzed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and 1H nuclear magnetic resonance. The plasticizing performances of this plasticizer was compared with those of two commercial ones: dioctyl terephthalate (DOTP) and dioctyl adipate (DOA). This was done by blending these plasticizers with PVC, respectively. Thermal gravimetric analysis results showed that the 5% weight loss temperature of PVC with AOT was 53°C higher than that of DOA and 36°C higher than that of DOTP. The tensile results showed that the AOT plasticized PVC had excellent stretchability: its elongation at break with 50 phr AOT reached 697.7%. Furthermore, its transmittance was as high as 90%, showing better compatibility of ATO with PVC. |
| Keywords: | bio-based plasticizer compatibility polyvinyl chloride stretchability thermal stability |