Effect of Olive Stone Biomass Ash Filler in Polylactic Acid Biocomposites on Accelerated Weathering Tests

José Ángel Moya-Muriana, Francisco J. Navas-Martos, Sofía Jurado-Contreras, Emilia Bachino-Fagalde, M. Dolores La Rubia · 2025

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Jose Angel Moya-Muriana and co-authors test olive stone ash as filler in polylactic acid plastic under fast weathering in a 2025 study. This plant-based plastic is brittle and heat-shy, and waste fillers promise greener, tougher blends.

Blends with no ash, low ash, and higher ash faced lab weathering with light, heat, and humidity for a thousand hours. Plain plastic lost about a third of its pull strength. Ash blends lost about half, so ash hurt weather resistance here. Chemical indices showed more breakdown products in ash blends. Heat tests fed a model of the breakdown kinetics. Makers get a clear caution that this waste filler trades looks and strength for green content.

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CREATORJosé Ángel Moya-Muriana, Francisco J. Navas-Martos, Sofía Jurado-Contreras, Emilia Bachino-Fagalde, M. Dolores La Rubia
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE101 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC12787796

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