An algae-derived partially renewable epoxy resin formulation for glass fibre-reinforced sustainable polymer composites

Dimitrios Apostolidis; W.E. Dyer; C.A. Dransfeld; B. Kumru

doi:10.1039/d3lp00174a

An algae-derived partially renewable epoxy resin formulation for glass fibre-reinforced sustainable polymer composites

Dimitrios Apostolidis^*, W.E. Dyer, C.A. Dransfeld, B. Kumru

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Utilization of sustainable feedstocks to fabricate renewable thermosetting epoxy resins has been of great interest recently; however, their translation into composite structures and benchmark comparisons are poorly understood. Phloroglucinol is a phenolic molecule obtained from brown algae, and its epoxidized form is a high viscosity, high reactivity monomer. In this study, the potential of epoxidized phloroglucinol as a laminating resin was examined in comparison with a bisphenol A diglycidyl ether (BADGE) epoxy monomer employing the Epikure 04908 linear amine hardener system. Utilization of a reactive diluent for PHTE resin was necessary for room temperature laminating applications to reduce viscosity, and the thermomechanical properties of PHTE-based resins and composites are superior to those of BADGE systems.

Original language	English
Number of pages	6
Journal	RSC Applied Polymers
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/d3lp00174a
Publication status	Published - 2024

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