A modern society demands development of highly valued and sustainable products via innovative process technologies and utilizing bio-based alternatives for petroleum based materials.This research demonstrates the applicability of the use of recycled cotton as promising sustainable material to be utilized as a substrate for electronic application and a reinforcing agent choice that can be produced without any intensive purification process and be applied to synthetic-based polymer nanocomposites in melt-processing. Low density polyethylene (LDPE) was used as the polymeric matrix and it was loaded with different cellulosic reinforcing agent types and content including micro/nanofibrilated cotton, cotton nanocrystals, bleached and unbleached softwood. The morphology, crystallinity, thermal stability and specific surface area of cellulose nanoparticles were determined and used to interpret the nanocomposite behavior.  Nanofibrillated cotton reinforcing agent in LDPE films resulted in the highest toughness as well as highest stiffness compared to cotton nanocrystals and wood originated nanofibrils. Thermal analysis of low density polyethylene polymer nanocomposites using DSC, TGA showed higher thermal stability of the NFC loaded material as compared to same loading of CNC.    <br/>

Cotton-based cellulose nanomaterials for applications in composites and electronics

253rd National Meeting (2017)

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