Thermal degradation of cellulose derivatives/starch blends and sisal fibre biocomposites

By V. Alvarez, Alexei Vazquez. 2004

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Polymers and Plastics

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In Biomaterials

1. Long Yu
2. K. Dean
3. Lin Li
4. B. F. Yousif
5. Z. Azwa
6. W. Karunasena
7. A. Manalo
8. H. Ning

In Polymers and Plastics

1. Long Yu
2. K. Dean
3. Lin Li
4. B. F. Yousif
5. H. Ning
6. A. Manalo
7. I. Ferguson
8. Z. Azwa

Citations in the corpus

• Polymer blends and composites from renewable resources (2006, methodology): “Alvarez and Valquez [123] studied the thermal behavior of cellulose derivatives/starch blends with different short sisal fiber content, using TGA/DTGA under dynamic conditions.”
• A review on the degradability of polymeric composites based on natural fibres (2013, methodology): “***[31] [53] [55] It is important to identify the type of information required in order to choose the suitable test methods.”
• Effect of surface treatment on thermal stability of the hemp-PLA composites: Correlation of activation energy with thermal degradation (2014, methodology): “Therefore, activation energy changes drastically below 40% conversion since the mechanism involving the decomposition of these ligno-cellulosic matter is different and once most of these materials are degraded, that is, the decomposition mechanism after 40% is different resulting in quite stable act”
• Mechanical and thermal characterization of epoxy composites reinforced with random and quasi-unidirectional untreated Phormium tenax leaf fibers (2010, background): “2%) [35,36], whilst the decomposition of lignin takes place in a wide temperature range (200–900 C) [32–34,37].”
• NANOCELLULOSE FROM RICE HUSK FOLLOWING ALKALINE TREATMENT TO REMOVE SILICA (2011, background): “6b) showed one degradation peak for C1 (remember that two peaks were present in original rice husk: C0), which in turns confirmed the elimination of hemicellulose (Alvarez and Vazquez 2004, Ndazi et al. 2008).”
• Thermal decomposition kinetics of natural fibers: Activation energy with dynamic thermogravimetric analysis (2008, methodology): “The approach has been used to determine the thermal degradation kinetics of some polymer/natural fiber composites [27].”
• Co-pyrolysis of pine cone with synthetic polymers (2010, background): “Based on the literature data [10–13], it seems that the first DTG peak is associated with the decomposition of hemicellulose and cellulose and the second one mainly with decomposition of lignin and of residual charcoal from cellulose and hemicellulose.”
• Interface and bonding mechanisms of plant fibre composites: An overview (2016, background): “urograndis pulp [37] Cellulose derivatives/starch blends Sisal fibre [39]”