Durian skin is a newly explores natural fibre potentially reinforced polyolefin for diverse applications. In this work, investigation on the effect of coupling agent, maleic anhydride polypropylene (MAPP) on the mechanical, morphological, and thermal properties of polypropylene (PP) reinforced with durian skin fibre (DSF) was conducted. The presence of 30 wt% DSF significantly reduced the tensi...

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A method for rapid determination of antioxidant Irganox 1076 in polyolefin by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy was established. By comparing the spectra and polypropylene, absorption peak at 1738 cm -1 selected as detection peak. Within concentration range involved, standard curve equation PP is y = 0.00593 + 0.12681x, linear regression coefficient 0.98742. The used to determine content ...