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. 2019 Aug 29;7:565. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2019.00565

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Benefits of lignin modification by propoxylation—(A) Derivatization reaction is oxyanion-dependent; (B) Tg of lignin esters is related to the size of the acyl substituent (i.e., number of C-atoms), applied to Kraft and organosolv lignin with data from Lewis and Brauns (1947), Glasser and Jain (1993); (C) Damping (tan δ) thermograms (by DMTA) of polyurethane films containing lignins with variable degree of propylene oxide-chain extension (Kelley et al., 1988); and (D) Modulus of polyurethane films with chain-extended hydroxypropyl lignin (CEHPL) compared with HPL/polyethylene glycol (PEG) mixed solutions in relation to lignin content.