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Morphology, thermal stability and thermal degradation kinetics of cellulose-modified urea–formaldehyde resin

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This article reports a study on the structural characterization and evaluation of thermal degradation kinetics of urea–formaldehyde resin modified with cellulose, known as UFC resin. Structural characterization of UFC undertaken by scanning electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared and X-ray diffraction analyses reveals that the resin is fairly homogenous, and it constitutes of partly crystalline structure including urea–formaldehyde/cellulose interface morphology different from UFC precursors. Measurement of inherent thermal stability, probing reaction complexity and the thermal degradation kinetic analysis of UFC have been carried out by thermogravimetric/differential thermal analyses (TGA/DTA) under non-isothermal conditions. The integral procedure decomposition temperature elucidates significant thermal stability of UFC. TGA/DTA analyses suggest highly complicated reaction profile for thermal degradation of UFC, comprising various parallel/consecutive reactions. Different differential and integral isoconversional methods have been employed to determine the thermal degradation activation energy of UFC. Substantial variation in activation energy with the advancement of reaction verifies multi-step reaction pathway of UFC. A plausible interpretation of the obtained kinetic parameters of UFC thermal degradation with regard to their physical meanings is given and discussed in this study.

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Acknowledgement

We acknowledge the financial support from the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MICINN), Spain, through the National Program for Fostering Excellence in Scientific and Technical Research (Project MAT2013-47972-C2-1-P).

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  1. University of Mohammed V, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Composite Materials, Polymers and Environment, Avenue Ibn Batouta, P.O. Box 1014, Rabat–Agdal, 10106, Morocco

    M A ARSHAD & A MAAROUFI

  2. Departamento de Ingeniería Química Industrial y del Medio Ambiente, E.T.S.I. Industriales, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, 28006, Spain

    G PINTO

  3. Laboratory of Applied Chemistry and Environment, Faculty of Sciences, Med I University, Oujda, 60000, Morocco

    S EL-BARKANY & A ELIDRISSI

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ARSHAD, M.A., MAAROUFI, A., PINTO, G. et al. Morphology, thermal stability and thermal degradation kinetics of cellulose-modified urea–formaldehyde resin. Bull Mater Sci 39, 1609–1618 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12034-016-1304-x

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