Biocomposites Made from Short Abaca Fiber and Biodegradable Polyesters

By M. Shibata, K. Ozawa, N. Teramoto, R. Yosomiya, H. Takeishi. 2003

243 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomaterials, Polymers and Plastics

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In Biomaterials

1. A. Bledzki
2. O. Faruk
3. A. Mohanty
4. Manjusri Misra
5. L. Drzal
6. Hongsheng Liu
7. Siqun Wang
8. Long Yu

In Polymers and Plastics

1. A. Bledzki
2. O. Faruk
3. A. Mohanty
4. Manjusri Misra
5. L. Drzal
6. A. Jaszkiewicz
7. Long Yu
8. K. T. Lau

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• Polylactic acid (PLA) biocomposites reinforced with coir fibres: Evaluation of mechanical performance and multifunctional properties (2014, background): “Furthermore, numerous benefits can be achieved for such biocomposites in terms of enhanced mechanical and thermal properties [20, 21], excellent biodegradability [22] and the net cost reduction resulting from replacement of biopolymers by much cheaper natural fibres.”
• Polypropylene composites with enzyme modified abaca fibre (2010, background): “[25,26] investigated treated and untreated abaca fibre reinforced biodegradable polyesters in injection moulding process.”
• Preparation and properties of recycled HDPE/natural fiber composites (2007, background): “Thermoplastics such as polyethylene (PE) [5–8], polypropylene (PP) [9–11], poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) [12,13], polystyrene (PS) [14], and poly(lactic acid) (PLA) [15,16] have been compounded with natural fibers (such as wood, kenaf, flax, hemp, cotton, Kraft pulp, coconut husk, areca fruit, pineappl”
• Comparison of injection moulded, natural fibre-reinforced composites with PP and PLA as matrices (2012, background): “Shibata et al.(38) studied the biodegradation of PLA/abaca fibre and reported higher mass loss of the untreated fibre composites compared to the neat polymer.”
• Biodegradable polymers/bamboo fiber biocomposite with bio-based coupling agent (2006, background): “In recent years, the development of biocomposites from biodegradable polymers and natural fibers have attracted great interests in the composite science, because they could allow complete degradation in soil or by composting process and do not emit any toxic or noxious components [1–16].”
• Effect of chemical modifications of the pineapple leaf fiber surfaces on the interfacial and mechanical properties of laminated biocomposites (2008, background): “[34], although the flexural moduli increased for PLA composites, flexural strength did not increase regardless of the fiber treatment.”
• Abaca fibre reinforced PP composites and comparison with jute and flax fibre PP composites (2007, methodology): “[13, 14] investigated treated abaca fibre and non treated abaca fibre reinforced biodegradable polyesters in injection moulding process.”