TITLE:
Physical and Chemical Properties and Crystal Structure Transformation of Beeswax during Heat Treatment
AUTHORS:
T. Espolov, J. Ukibayev, D. Myrzakozha, P. Perez-Lopez, Y. Ermolaev
KEYWORDS:
Wax, Composite Biomaterial, Radiography, Defect Structure
JOURNAL NAME:
Natural Science,
Vol.6 No.11,
July
18,
2014
ABSTRACT: The object of
research is the wax as a waste product of bees in the steppe and mountain areas
of Almaty region of Kazakhstan. Purpose: To study the structure parameters and
the homologous phase composition, morphology waxes of alpine and mountain areas
of Kazakhstan and the establishment temperature-dependent patterns of their
atomic-crystalline state. Methods: Radiography, gas chromatography, scanning
electron microscopy and chemical methods of separation of multicomponent
systems. The results were obtained in the atomic crystal and molecular
structures of beeswax depending on the districts collecting materials. The
technique of obtaining radiographs after dissolving beeswax in benzene, hexane
and xylene was used. Submitted thermo-radiographic study samples were obtained.
Batch analysis thermo-radiographs waxes after treatment with benzene, hexane
and xylene showed that their structure is essentially different from the source
and closer to the spectra of the crystallized wax melted and due to
annihilation of stacking faults waxes native atoms after their dissolution in
hexane, benzene and xylene and subsequent their recrystallization. The results obtained
allow expanding the amount of information on the physico-chemical processes
and structural transformations in beeswax as a composite of different genesis
biomaterial. Scope: Beekeeping, plant, structural and analytical chemistry,
biotechnology and biocomposites.