Studies on the Synthesis and Characterisation of Polyesters from Canola Oil

  • C. Sindhuja, Dr. N. J. Sangeetha

Abstract

            The main goal of this work is to synthesis and characterisation of polyesters fromcanola oil. In this work, polyesters were obtained from acrylated epoxidised canola oil resin followed by monomers such as methyl methacrylate (MMA) and n-vinyl 2-pyrrolidone (VP). Initially, the resin was prepared by the epoxidised canola oil resin with acrylic acid and triethylamine catalyst at 1600C for about 8hrs and vacuum oven at 1 hr. Crosslinked polyesters were synthesized by the polymerization of resin with methyl methacrylate and n-vinyl 2-pyrrolidone in the presence of benzoyl peroxide initiator. The prepared polyester sheets were studied by FT-IR, swelling, mechanical,thermal studies and SEM. This result found that polyester based on methyl methacrylate possess good thermal and mechanical properties due to its higher crosslink density.Finally prepared polyesters are used for biomedical and tissue engineering applications.

Published
2021-11-22
How to Cite
C. Sindhuja, Dr. N. J. Sangeetha. (2021). Studies on the Synthesis and Characterisation of Polyesters from Canola Oil. Design Engineering, 14715-14725. Retrieved from http://thedesignengineering.com/index.php/DE/article/view/6596
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