Effect of thermo-oxidative aging on mechanical and morphological properties of bagasse filled polypropylene composites

Abstract

The effect of thermo-oxidative aging on mechanical and morphological properties of bagasse filled polypropylene composites at different filler loading with and without coupling agent were studied. The results show that thermo-oxidative aging can be the mechanical properties of PP/bagasse composites going down, although PP/bagasse/MAPP composites shows going up because of the continuity of radicals continue bonding between matrix and filler. The suite coupling agent that can be used in combination of matrix and filler bond is MAPP. The performance of MAPP will be reduce if filler loading become increase, but better than PP/bagasse composites with MAPP are better without coupling agent.