{"id":18345,"date":"2013-12-05T03:09:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T01:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/biobased\/2013\/12\/03\/toyota-boshoku-and-toyota-central-rd-create-new-bioplastic-alloy\/"},"modified":"2013-12-04T19:29:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T17:29:48","slug":"toyota-boshoku-toyota-central-rd-labs-novel-bio-based-plastic-top-level-impact-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/toyota-boshoku-toyota-central-rd-labs-novel-bio-based-plastic-top-level-impact-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota Boshoku and Toyota Central R&amp;D Labs., Novel bio-based plastic with top-level impact strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(AICHI, Japan) November 15, 2013 \u2013 Toyota Boshoku Corporation (TOKYO: 3116), a premier manufacturer of automotive interior systems, and Toyota Central R&amp;D Labs., Inc., contributing to present and future businesses of Toyota Group companies through technological innovations, are pleased to announce that they have developed an original technique to realize a bio-based plastic alloy with top-class impact strength. The bio-based plastic alloy (bio-alloy) is made from polyamide 11 (PA11), a 100% bio-based resin originating from plants and synthesized by castor oil*<sup>1<\/sup> extracted from Ricinus Communis (castor bean plant) as a raw material, and polypropylene (PP) derived from petroleum-based resin. The performance of this high impact bio-alloy surpasses polycarbonate alloys.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The impact strength of the bio-alloy was achieved by controlling the phase structure of PP and PA11 at the nano level through a \u201csalami structure*<sup>2<\/sup>\u201d mixture (dispersion) resulting in the world&#8217;s first \u201csalami in co-continuous phase structure*<sup>2<\/sup>\u201d. To improve the chemical characteristics (affinity) of raw materials, a special reactive compatibilizer was added to the raw materials and a molten blended technology was carried out to lead to a chemical reaction. By utilizing this technology, we have achieved an impact strength bio-alloy that is 10 times greater than that of PP conventionally used in car interior decoration parts and 13 times greater than that of bio-based plastic (PP\/PLA).<\/p>\n<p>When this bio-alloy is put to practical use, the adaptation of bio-based plastic for automotive parts can be significantly expanded. In particular, interior decoration parts such as automotive door trims, installment panels or as a collision energy absorber to increase part safety impact strength and rigidity that are necessary for passenger protection at the time of crash. Furthermore, this bio-alloy can be applied to exterior automotive parts made from resin such as fenders or bumpers.<\/p>\n<p>Toyota Group\u2019s Toyota Boshoku and Toyota Central R&amp;D Labs., Inc. plan to further improve the development of this technology including material technology aimed at early practical use of this bio-alloy, to contribute to the making of cars that harmonize with the global environment.<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>*<sup>1<\/sup> <span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seeds of the castor plant (a non-edible plant) of the Euphorbiaceae are cultivated in tropical and temperate zones. PA11 is obtained by the polymerization of 11-amino undecanoic acid derived from the extraction of castor oil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>*<sup>2<\/sup> <span style=\"font-size: small;\">The phase structure of compound resin is formed from numerous raw materials. The name \u201csalami structure\u201d came from the resemblance of a cut section of salami with the \u201csalami structure\u201d consisting of three parts: 1) the \u201clake\u201d phase in the \u201cisland\u201d (dispersion) phase, 2) the \u201cisland\u201d phase in the \u201csea\u201d (continuous) phase and the 3) \u201csea\u201d phase. The \u201csalami in co-continuous phase structure\u201d has a salami structure in each continuous phase. In addition, at this time there are no reports of salami in co-continuous phase structure, this is the first such report (as of October 2013 per company research).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Japan, Toyota Boshoku working with Toyota Central R&amp;D Labs have created a bioplastic alloy us&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[6166,6167],"class_list":["post-18345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-toyota-boshoku","supplier-toyota-labs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18345"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=18345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}