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Item Study of the Impact of Epoxidized Soybean Oil on the Characteristics of Wood-Polymer Composites(MDPI, 2025) Kulikov, Andrii; Kryvolapov, Dmytro; Sukhyy, Kostyantyn M.; Yeromin, Oleksandr O.; Fedak, Marcel; Prokopenko, Olena M.; Sukha, Iryna V.; Musaio, Angelo; Hrebik, TomasENG: The effect of epoxidized soybean oil on the operational, technological, and physical and mechanical properties of composites based on high-density recycled polyethylene filled with wood floor was investigated. It has been shown that the introduction of epoxidized soybean oil in the amount of 0.5 wt.% into the wood-polymer composite (WPC) improves the physical, mechanical, and operational properties of the material: the Charpy impact strength (on notched samples) increases from 7.5 kJ/m2 to 20.0 kJ/m2, the bending strength increases from 31.6 MPa to 50.8 MPa, and the coefficient of linear thermal expansion decreases by 15%. With a further increase in the content of epoxidized soybean oil in the composite, its water absorption and technological shrinkage decrease, but its physical and mechanical properties deteriorate.