Pushpa Bhardwaj1, Susheel Kalia2,3,*, Amit Kumar1, Hemant Mittal4
Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.1, No.4, pp. 302-310, 2013, DOI:10.7569/JRM.2013.634123
Abstract The objective of the present study is to elucidate the effect of peroxide treatment and graft copolymerization
on water absorption behavior of soy protein fi bers in order to make them suitable as a reinforcing material.
Grafting of poly(methyl acrylate) and copolymers was successfully carried out on peroxide-treated soy protein
fi bers. Different reaction parameters were optimized in order to get maximum percentage grafting. The grafted
fi bers were evaluated for water absorption behavior in deionized water. Maximum grafting has been found at
0.219 mol/l of methyl acrylate, 0.0096:0.145 mol/l of FAS:H2O2
, 323 K, and 90minutes. Graft copolymerization
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