Fractionated lignin as a polyol in polyurethane fabrication.

The main purpose of this paper was to systematically evaluate the effect of lignin, which was fractioned by green solvents into different molecular weights and used as polyol in the production of polyurethane foams (PUF). The results indicated that the foams prepared with the lower molecular weight lignin had uniform and complete pore structure and improved the mechanical strength. However, the higher molecular weight fraction lignin improved the density and thermal stability of the foam more significantly at the expense of inferior mechanical strength and pore structure deficiency. When the substitution degree of lignin in the PUF was 2 %-30 %, 99.13 % of the lowest molecular weight lignin was participated in the reaction to produce PUF, which improved the elongation at break (Eb) and tensile strength (Ts) of PUF to 834 % and 0.90 MPa, respectively. Also, thermal stability and the amount of unreacted lignin in PUF were increased at a higher substitution degree of lignin in PUF. Copyright © 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Changgeng Li, Huiqi Jin, Minjie Hou, Xu Guo, Tianyuan Xiao, Xinyu Cao, Wenchao Jia, Pedram Fatehi, Haiqiang Shi. Fractionated lignin as a polyol in polyurethane fabrication. International journal of biological macromolecules. 2024 Jan;256(Pt 2):128290

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