Green plastics: Utilizing chicken feather keratin in thermoplastic polyurethane composites to enhance thermo-mechanical properties

• Main Authors: Pourjavaheri, Firoozeh, Jones, Oliver A. H., Mohaddes, Farzad, Sherkat, Frank, Gupta, Arun, Shanks, Robert A.
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: Society of Plastics Engineers 2016
• Subjects: TP Chemical technology
• Online Access: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/29733/1/Green%20plastics-%20utilizing%20chicken%20feather%20keratin%20in%20thermoplastic%20.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/29733/
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Pahang

A 'green', sustainable resource, in the form of chicken feather derived keratin, was used to enhance the thermomechanical properties of polyurethane bio-composites. Solvent–casting–evaporation method was used to incorporate three levels of chicken feather fibers (0, 10 and 20 %·w/w) into a...