{"title":"Castor oil and its glyceride-based polyurethane flexible and rigid foam with vanillin for antibacterial material","authors":"Yao-Chi Wu , Yi-Chun Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.indcrop.2025.121275","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Castor oil glyceride (COG) was synthesized <em>via</em> transesterification of castor oil with glycerol. Polyurethane (PU) foams were subsequently prepared by reacting castor oil or COG as the polyol component with 1,6-hexamethylene diisocyanate trimer biuret (HDB). Vanillin was incorporated in quantities equivalent corresponding to 10 % or 20 % of the total hydroxyl groups of the polyol. The effects of COG and vanillin as raw materials on the properties of PU foams were investigated. The successful synthesis of COG was confirmed, exhibiting a hydroxyl value of 339.1 mg KOH/g, a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of 860 g/mol, and a polydispersity index (PDI) of 1.3 g/mol. Compared to castor oil-based PU foams, COG-based foams exhibited a shorter reaction time, along with significantly higher compressive strength and thermal stability. Increasing the vanillin content led to a decrease in both foam density and compressive strength. The weight retention of solvents exhibited an efficiency above 95 %. The incorporation of vanillin demonstrated a slight enhancement in the thermal properties of castor oil-based foams. Notably, the incorporation of vanillin and castor oil improves the antibacterial activity of the bio-based PU foams. Vanillin addition contributed to the enhancement of the thermal and antibacterial properties of castor oil-derived PU foams.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":13581,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Crops and Products","volume":"232 ","pages":"Article 121275"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Industrial Crops and Products","FirstCategoryId":"97","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0926669025008210","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Castor oil glyceride (COG) was synthesized via transesterification of castor oil with glycerol. Polyurethane (PU) foams were subsequently prepared by reacting castor oil or COG as the polyol component with 1,6-hexamethylene diisocyanate trimer biuret (HDB). Vanillin was incorporated in quantities equivalent corresponding to 10 % or 20 % of the total hydroxyl groups of the polyol. The effects of COG and vanillin as raw materials on the properties of PU foams were investigated. The successful synthesis of COG was confirmed, exhibiting a hydroxyl value of 339.1 mg KOH/g, a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of 860 g/mol, and a polydispersity index (PDI) of 1.3 g/mol. Compared to castor oil-based PU foams, COG-based foams exhibited a shorter reaction time, along with significantly higher compressive strength and thermal stability. Increasing the vanillin content led to a decrease in both foam density and compressive strength. The weight retention of solvents exhibited an efficiency above 95 %. The incorporation of vanillin demonstrated a slight enhancement in the thermal properties of castor oil-based foams. Notably, the incorporation of vanillin and castor oil improves the antibacterial activity of the bio-based PU foams. Vanillin addition contributed to the enhancement of the thermal and antibacterial properties of castor oil-derived PU foams.
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Industrial Crops and Products is an International Journal publishing academic and industrial research on industrial (defined as non-food/non-feed) crops and products. Papers concern both crop-oriented and bio-based materials from crops-oriented research, and should be of interest to an international audience, hypothesis driven, and where comparisons are made statistics performed.