Highly Functional Bioplastics (PLA compounds) Used for Electronic Products

Author

Inoue, Kazuhiko ; Serizawa, Shin ; Yamashiro, Midori ; Iji, Masatoshi

Author_Institution

NEC, Tsukuba

fYear

2007

fDate

Jan. 16 2007-Yearly 18 2007

Firstpage

73

Lastpage

76

Abstract

We have developed highly functional bioplastics (biomass-based plastics), polylactic acid composites, which improve the environmental friendliness of electronic products. A kenaf-fiber-reinforced polylactic acid has high heat resistance, high impact strength, and good moldability, and its use in PC parts and mobile phone housing has started from September 2004 and May 2006 respectively. A thermoreversibly cross-linked polylactic acid has excellent shape memory and recyclability (i.e., rewritable shape memory), and was used to create freestyle (wearable) mobile products, shape of which users can easily adjust to their own preferences.

Keywords

electronic products; fibres; plastics; renewable materials; shape memory effects; PC parts; biomass-based plastics; bioplastics; electronic products; environmental friendliness; kenaf fiber; mobile phone housing; polylactic acid; recyclability; shape memory; Biological materials; Consumer electronics; Immune system; Injection molding; Mechanical factors; Optical fiber testing; Plastics; Programmable logic arrays; Resistance heating; Shape; Bioplastic; heat resistance; kenaf fiber; recycling; shape memory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Polymers and Adhesives in Microelectronics and Photonics, 2007. Polytronic 2007. 6th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Odaiba, Tokyo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1186-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1186-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/POLYTR.2007.4339141

Filename

4339141