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Revolutionary 'green' types of bricks and construction materials could be made from recycled PVC, waste plant fibers or sand with the help of a remarkable new kind of rubber polymer discovered by Australian scientists.
The rubber polymer, itself made from sulfur and canola oil, can be compressed and heated with fillers to create construction materials of the future, says a new paper unveiling a promising new technique just published in Chemistry—A European Journal.
"This method could produce materials that may one day replace non-recyclable construction materials, bricks and even concrete replacement," says organic chemistry researcher Flinders University Associate Professor Justin Chalker.
[...] "This new recycling method and new composites are an important step forward in making sustainable construction materials, and the rubber material can be repeatedly ground up and recycled," says lead author Flinders Ph.D. Nic Lundquist. "The rubber particles also can be first used to purify water and then repurposed into a rubber mat or tubing."
"This is also important because there are currently few methods to recycle PVC or carbon fiber," he says, with collaborators from Flinders, Deakin University and University of WA.
[...] The new manufacturing and recycling technique, called reactive compression molding, applies to rubber material that can be compressed and stretched, but one that doesn't melt. The unique chemical structure of the sulfur backbone in the novel rubber allows for multiple pieces of the rubber to bond together.
More information: Nicholas Lundquist et al. Reactive compression molding post‐inverse vulcanization: A method to assemble, recycle, and repurpose sulfur polymers and composites, Chemistry – A European Journal (2020). DOI: 10.1002/chem.202001841
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 26 2020, @05:07PM (6 children)
Sounds like my mother-in-law's cooking... who knew the old battle-axe was a cutting-edge materials science researcher?
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday May 26 2020, @05:17PM (4 children)
Sounds like it would smell pretty nasty too... not sure I'd want to spend long periods of time inside a room constructed from that stuff.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 26 2020, @08:13PM (3 children)
Having worked with building material made mainly from recyled tires as the base, with other assorted plastics as fillers/whatever...yes, it bloody stinks as supplied, well, the stuff we had did, and if you had to work it....I made it SEFP when it came anywhere near the workshops..
Then there's the questions of gas and chemical leakage from it..especially over the long term, which we didn't get any answers for re the stuff we were supplied with.
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Tuesday May 26 2020, @10:44PM (2 children)
SEFP ?
Science and Engineering Foundation Programme?
Shaving Eyebrows Fun and Profit?
Senior Executive Fellows Program?
Sexy Eunuchs Fucking Pillows?
Search Engine Frontend Page?
Sleek Elegant Fast Porches?
Sexy Egyptians Fucking Pharisees?
Shouldn't Expect Fair Pay?
Shaving Extremely Fine Pussy?
Sony Ericsson Flash Plugin?
Sustainable Energy Financing Project?
Selling Extremely Fucked Products?
???What????
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2020, @05:25AM (1 child)
Someone Elses Fucking Problem.
The stuff was hellish to work with, was murder on the tooling (recyled tires...full of tiny bits of embedded metal), contaminated the dust collection system (set up mostly to handle the dust from the woodworking equipment, and the presence of this stuff in the collection bags meant that we couldn't recycle it), as far as I was concerned, it shouldn't have been anywhere near us or our equipment, but was overruled by the beancounter they'd put in charge of the workshops, so I took no responsibility for the stuff, left it to the muppet squad, and then internally charged for the damage they caused to our equipment working with it.
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Thursday May 28 2020, @02:13AM
Hahaha, oddly, never heard that one.
I like it but somehow I'm disappointed it wasn't Shaving Eyebrows for Fun and Profit!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2020, @01:47AM
Who do you think she was testing it on?