The Effect of Morphology and Chemical Characteristics of Cellulose Reinforcements on the Crystallinity of Polylactic Acid

380 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Comparison of injection moulded, natural fibre-reinforced composites with PP and PLA as matrices (2012, background): “The RNCF-reinforced PLA composites also had better damping characteristics than neat PLA.”
Influence of chemical surface modification of cellulose nanowhiskers on thermal, mechanical, and barrier properties of poly(lactide) based bionanocomposites (2013, background): “M A CR O M O LE CU LA R N A N O TE CH N O LO G Y acetate [7], poly(ethylene oxide) [8], poly(vinyl alcohol) [9], poly(caprolactone) (PCL) [10,11], poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV) [12,13] or poly(lactide) [11,14–17].”
The influence of fibre microstructure on fibre breakage and mechanical properties of natural fibre reinforced polypropylene (2009, background): “The interest in natural fibre reinforced polymer composites has grown rapidly due to the high performance in mechanical properties, significant processing advantages, low cost and low density [9–13].”
Effect of fibre treatments on interfacial shear strength of hemp fibre reinforced polylactide and unsaturated polyester composites (2011, background): “3 Transcrytallinity at the interface of PLA/hemp fibre samples Natural fibres can induce crystallisation (transcrystallinity) from their surfaces in a semicrystalline polymer [32, 33].”