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ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Valorising End-of-Life Mattress Waste into Sustainable Construction Insulation Materials.

Lachlan Thompson, Md Morshed Alam, Fareed Tamaddoni Jahromi, Mostafa Nikzad

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Lachlan ThompsonDepartment of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC 3122, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-6387-3023
Md Morshed AlamDepartment of Civil and Construction Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC 3122, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-1422-3948
Fareed Tamaddoni JahromiDepartment of Mechanical Engineering and Product Design Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC 3122, Australia.
Mostafa NikzadDepartment of Mechanical Engineering and Product Design Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC 3122, Australia.

Funding

Australian Bedding Stewardship Council NASwinburne University of Technology NA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Shredded mattress waste was valorised into an insulation material via the addition of a cellulose/urea gel. The addition of the cellulose-based gel was found to successfully bond the miscellaneous shred, creating a composite with a unique pore structure. The composites were tested for their thermal conductivity to explore their use as insulation materials in construction applications. From the testing, the thermal conductivity was found to range between 49 and 60 mW/mK depending on the composition and processing steps. While some of the produced composites showed poor thermal resistance not suitable for an insulation product, we report that additional processing resulted in thermal conductivities that were lower than the existing commercial insulation product (45 mW/mK). Numerical simulations revealed that it is possible to further reduce the thermal conductivity of the samples by optimising the porosity and pore sizes. Hence, there is a strong promise of recycling a common waste product into sustainable building insulation products with further optimisations.

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biomasscellulosegelsinsulationmaterials sciencepolymer upcyclingwaste prevention

Identifiers

PMID39942313
PMCPMC11820497

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