A growing interest is developing toward the replacement of petroleum-based polymers with bio-based polymers, biodegradable polymers or the use of bio-filler. PLA and ABS polymers are currently promising material as bio-based and petroleum-based polymers respectively. However PLA suffers of brittleness and poor thermal stability while ABS production requires non-renewebale ressources. In this regard, polymer blending of PLA and ABS offers a unique process to face theses issues. However, the incompatibility between PLA and ABS requires a compatibilization.<br/>In order to tackle these issues, a new approach of polymer reactive compatibilization of PLA and ABS using an emerging new type of nanofillers is investigated. In this work, we propose to explore the functionalization of bio-based nanofillers prior to incorporate them into PLA/ABS blends as compatibilizer in synergy with an organo-compatibilizer. We will highlight our findings in this presentation.

New approach of polymer reactive compatibilization

251st National Meeting (2016)

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