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The raw materials were two commercial degrees of recycled post-consumer waste, i.e., rPP and rPET-O. Sheets were manufactured by a semi-industrial extrusion-calendering process. The mechanical and fracture behaviours of manufactured sheets were analyzed via tensile tests and the essential work of fracture approach. SEM micrographics of cryofractured sheets revelated the development of in situ rPP\/rPET-O microfibrillar composites when 30 wt.% of rPET-O was added. It was observed that the yield stress was not affected with the addition of rPET-O. However, the microfibrillar structure increased the Young\u2019s modulus by more than a third compared with rPP, fulfilling the longitudinal value predicted by the additive rule of mixtures. Regarding the EWF analysis, the resistance to crack initiation was highly influenced by the resistance to its propagation owing to morphology-related instabilities during tearing. To analyze the initiation stage, a partition energy method was successfully applied by splitting the total work of fracture into two specific energetic contributions, namely initiation and propagation. The results revelated that the specific essential initiation-related work of fracture was mainly affected by rPET-O phase. Remarkably, its value was significantly improved by a factor of three with the microfibrillar structure of rPET-O phase. The results allowed the exploration of the potential ability of manufacturing in situ MFCs without a \u201cprecursor\u201d morphology, providing an economical way to promote the recycling rate of PET-O, as this material is being discarded from current recycling processes.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/polym13142360","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,19]],"date-time":"2021-07-19T10:07:37Z","timestamp":1626689257000},"page":"2360","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Extruded-Calendered Sheets of Fully Recycled PP\/Opaque PET Blends: Mechanical and Fracture Behaviour"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6766-7681","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"David","family":"Loaeza","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre Catal\u00e0 del Pl\u00e0stic, Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya Barcelona Tech (EEBE-UPC), Av. d\u2019Eduard Maristany, 16, 08019 Barcelona, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3785-0829","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jonathan","family":"Cailloux","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre Catal\u00e0 del Pl\u00e0stic, Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya Barcelona Tech (EEBE-UPC), Av. d\u2019Eduard Maristany, 16, 08019 Barcelona, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3040-6848","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Orlando Santana","family":"P\u00e9rez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre Catal\u00e0 del Pl\u00e0stic, Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya Barcelona Tech (EEBE-UPC), Av. d\u2019Eduard Maristany, 16, 08019 Barcelona, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0023-5059","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Miguel","family":"S\u00e1nchez-Soto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre Catal\u00e0 del Pl\u00e0stic, Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya Barcelona Tech (EEBE-UPC), Av. d\u2019Eduard Maristany, 16, 08019 Barcelona, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4813-6412","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Maria Llu\u00efsa","family":"Maspoch","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre Catal\u00e0 del Pl\u00e0stic, Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya Barcelona Tech (EEBE-UPC), Av. d\u2019Eduard Maristany, 16, 08019 Barcelona, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Eunomia (2021, February 04). 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