Life cycle assessment and mechanical properties of nanocomposites based on cellulose nanocrystals
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract The present work focuses on the preparation of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) reinforced composites based on polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) and polypropylene (PP). The effects of the CNCs content as reinforcement and the addition of maleic anhydride (MA) as a coupling agent on the mechanical and morphological properties of the composites were studied. In addition, the biodegradability of the composites was investigated. Samples were prepared using PP and PHB as matrixes and CNCs as reinforcement. Test samples were prepared using the injection molding machine. The studied parameters were microscopic analysis and tensile strength measurement. Tensile strength increased with increasing CNC, but it decreased slightly when 5 wt% of CNC was added. Tensile strength decreased with the addition of MA. Environmental impacts from the production of 100 g of PP and PHB were evaluated using the life cycle assessment (LCA) approach. The results showed that the environmental impacts of composites containing PHB biopolymer are higher than PP ones.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".