Natural fibres as reinforcement in polylactic acid (PLA) composites

By Kristiina Oksman, Mikael Skrifvars, Johan-Fredrik Selin. 2003

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Polymers and Plastics

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In Biomaterials

1. Aji P. Mathew
2. Kristiina Oksman
3. E. Fortunati
4. J. Kenny
5. D. Puglia
6. A. Le Duigou
7. C. Baley
8. P. Davies

In Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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2. P. Bajpai
3. I. Singh
4. Jitendra K. Madaan
5. Aji P. Mathew
6. J. Müssig
7. Md Abdullah Al Faruque
8. Kristiina Oksman

In Polymers and Plastics

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2. P. Davies
3. Alain Bourmaud
4. A. Le Duigou
5. Libo Yan
6. N. Chouw
7. Krishnan Jayaraman
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Citations in the corpus

• Properties of biocomposites based on lignocellulosic fillers (2006, neutral): “PLA has been associated with paper waste fibres, wood flour (Levit, Farrel, Gross, & McCarthy, 1996), kenaf (Nishino, Hirao, Kotera, Nakamae, & Inagaki, 2003), jute (Plackett, Logstrup Andersen, Batsberg Pedersen, & Nielsen, 2003) or flax fibres ( Oksman, Skrifvars, & Selin, 2003; Van de Velde & Ki”
• Extrusion-Based 3D Printing Applications of PLA Composites: A Review (2021, background): “It was found that the mechanical properties of PLA-flax fiber composites were appropriate to be used in automotive panels, however the addition of the plasticizers did not have a positive effect on the impact strength of the samples [54].”
• Biodegradation of flax fiber reinforced poly lactic acid (2010, background): “Extensive research is carried out on plastics and composites from poly(lactic acid) (PLA), a synthetic aliphatic polyester which is biodegradable and synthesized from renewable agriculture products, with properties comparable to some fossil-oil-based polymers [2].”
• The influence of fibre microstructure on fibre breakage and mechanical properties of natural fibre reinforced polypropylene (2009, methodology): “Compounding The composite materials were manufactured using a long fibre thermoplastics (LFT) processing method [21,22], where the fibre rovings are continuously fed into the extruder.”
• Effect of Matrix–Particle Interfacial Adhesion on the Mechanical Properties of Poly(lactic acid)/Wood-Flour Micro-Composites (2009, background): “PLA composites incorporating a range of cellulosic fibers have been reported, and include the use of flax [ 8 ], sisal [9], bamboo [10], short abaca [11], jute [12], lyocell [13], paper and pulp [14, 15], and microcrystalline cellulose [16].”
• Development and characterization of PLA-based green composites (2014, methodology): “Oksman et al.(1) reported that while making composite using flax fiber (30–40%) with PLA resin, strength was about 50% better compared to similar PP/flax fiber composite.”
• Flax fibre and its composites – A review (2014, background): “Properties of some biodegradable polymers used in bio-composites [56,67–71].”