Pretreatments of Natural Fibers and their Application as Reinforcing Material in Polymer Composites—A Review

By Susheel Kalia, B. Kaith, Inderjeet Kaur. 2009

1,429 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Polymers and Plastics

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In Mechanical Engineering

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2. N. Saba
3. D. Shah
4. P. Tahir
5. J. Drelich
6. E. Moura
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8. L. Avérous

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2. N. Saba
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8. Roszilah Hamid

In Polymers and Plastics

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2. N. Saba
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4. M. Selvan
5. V. Arthanarieswaran
6. D. Shah
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Citations in the corpus

• Re-Emerging Field of Lignocellulosic Fiber – Polymer Composites and Ionizing Radiation Technology in their Formulation (2016, background): “Unfortunately, chemical treatments often involve toxic and/or hazardous chemicals, the handling and disposing of which increases both the cost and complexity of new technologies, POLYMER REVIEWS 715 not always leading to desirable results.92,93 In addition, Kalia et al.92 concluded in their review t”
• Hydrophobic treatment of natural fibers and their composites—A review (2018, background): “addition of epoxides, alkyl halides, benzyl chloride, acrylonitrile, and formaldehyde [12,65,66].”
• Green composites: A review of material attributes and complementary applications (2014, background): “Significant research has been undertaken into improving the properties of natural fibres through chemical modifications to their surface, this work is presented and reviewed in a number of papers, including [22,35,36].”