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This paper describes injection molding of a new wood composite with a natural binder composed of sucrose and citric acid. The wood composite was plasticized to be deformable when heated, making molding possible. In this study, the effects of the natural binder content and mixture ratio of the sucrose and the citric acid on the fluidity of the wood composite on injection molding were investigated. At first, the appropriate molding temperature for plasticizing the wood composite was determined to be 180 °C by thermal analysis. In the injection molding test, products were obtained successfully when the fluidity of the wood composite was high. The fluidity was improved by increasing the binder content, and the optimum mixture ratio of the sucrose and the citric acid was 75:25.
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This work was supported by a KAKENHI grant (number 16K18265) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and by Grants-in-Aid for Humanosphere Mission Research in 2016 (number 11) from the Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere at Kyoto University.
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Kajikawa, S., Horikoshi, M., Kuboki, T., Tanaka, S., Umemura, K., Kanayama, K. (2021). Fluidity of Wood Composite Combined with Natural Binder on Injection Molding. In: Daehn, G., Cao, J., Kinsey, B., Tekkaya, E., Vivek, A., Yoshida, Y. (eds) Forming the Future. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75381-8_171
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