What is it about?
Industrial waste often ends up as landfills or pollutants in the water bodies. Its high time that we REDUCE the usage of synthetic materials and REUSE the byproducts of industries as much as possible. With this aim Cenosphere, one of the byproduct of thermal power plants was used for the preparation of syntactic foam cores. The prepared foam cores were used for the fabrication of the sandwich composites using epoxy and a green curative based on cardanol, the byproduct from cashew nut shell liquid. Both the core and the sandwich composites were extensively characterised and analyzed for various properties.
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Why is it important?
This work has been done with an aim to make sandwich composites greener in nature.
Perspectives
We; humans:as a whole, are all responsible for the sad state of our world. Our world that is facing green house effect, sudden natural calamities, unexpected floods and earthquakes. The list goes on and on. as endless damage has been already been done. Its high time now that we start considering fixing these issues. We all should take a small step; no matter how small it is towards green and sustainable world.
Mandip Kaur
Anna University Chennai
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This page is a summary of: Eco-friendly cardanol-based phenalkamine cured epoxy-cenosphere syntactic foams: Fabrication and characterisation, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, August 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/app.44189.
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