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Non-isothermal crystallization and thermal degradation properties of three phase composites from wood flour, high-density polyethylene and basalt fibers

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Basalt fiber can be used as a reinforcing phase to improve the mechanical properties of wood thermoplastic composites. The purpose of this study was to use differential scanning calorimetry to study the effect of the addition of basalt fiber and wood flour on the non-isothermal crystallization kinetics of high-density polyethylene (HDPE)-based composites. The Avrami method and Avrami–Ozawa method were adopted to describe the non-isothermal crystallization process, and Gaussian model was used to calculate the surface activation energy. This study showed that the addition of basalt fiber and wood flour significantly changed the crystallinity of wood flour/high-density polyethylene (HDPE)/basalt fiber three-phase composites. The apparent activation energy of the three-phase composites was calculated using Gaussian multi-peak simulations, and the trend of the conversion rate was modeled. In addition, basalt fiber and wood flour, as nucleating agents, had the ability to accelerate the crystallization of wood flour/high-density polyethylene (HDPE)/basalt fiber three-phase composites without changing the crystallization mechanism of these composite materials.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the Bavarian State Institute of Forestry LWF for both supporting the project ‘Easy Beech – Development of economic beech components with focus on medium-sized and local companies’ and funding the project ‘Beech Connect – Optimizing hardwood structures by using modern connections’. We also thank the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture for funding of the project ‘Impact of forest management on sawn timber quality of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) and optimizing automatic log grading’) [grant number 22025114]. Finally, we thank the European Union for funding the Horizon 2020 project “A multi-criteria decision support system for a common forest management to strengthen forest resilience, harmonize stakeholder interests and ensure sustainable wood flows” (ONEforest) [grant number 101000406]. We are grateful to Microtec (Bressanone, Italy) for assisting with data collection .

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JWGVDK, HP and AR initiated the project. AR. sampled the material, analyzed and interpreted the data. AR, AK, HP and JWGVDK wrote the manuscript.

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Huang, R., Teng, Z. Non-isothermal crystallization and thermal degradation properties of three phase composites from wood flour, high-density polyethylene and basalt fibers. Wood Sci Technol 56, 1103–1125 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00226-022-01391-0

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