# Polypropylene/wood flour and wheat husk hybrid composites

> Title: Polypropylene/wood flour and wheat husk hybrid composites Page Range: p.141-150 Author(s): Pradeep Upadhyaya; Manoj Garg; Smita Mathur; Vijai Kumar; Nema A K File size: Download the pdf (subscribers only) Buy the pdf (non-subscribers) Journal: Applied Polymer Composites Issue Year: apc Volume:...

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**Title: Polypropylene/wood flour and wheat husk hybrid composites**
 Page Range: p.141-150
 Author(s): Pradeep Upadhyaya; Manoj Garg; Smita Mathur; Vijai Kumar; Nema A K
 File size:
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 Journal: Applied Polymer Composites
 Issue Year: apc
 Volume: 2
 Issue No: No.3

**Abstract**
 Wood flour and wheat husk have been treated using sodium hydroxide (NaOH) and benzoyl chloride and used with maleic anhydride-grafted polypropylene (MAgPP) and titanate coupling agent emulsion as reinforcement for polypropylene based hybrid composites with 10 to 50% reinforcements with equal amounts of wood flour and wheat husk. Density, melt flow index, heat deflection temperature, melting temperature and thermal degradation of the composites have been investigated along with reinforcement/matrix interactions. Density and heat deflection temperature of the composites increase with increasing contents of reinforcements, but melt flow index decreases. Melting and crystallisation temperatures are almost the same as those of the matrix. 18 Refs.

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