The surface modification of cellulose fibres for use as reinforcing elements in composite materials

By M. Belgacem, A. Gandini. 2005

366 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics, Surfaces, Coatings and Films

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In Materials Chemistry

1. W. Hamad
2. Chuanwei Miao
3. A. Gandini
4. M. Belgacem
5. Sabu Thomas
6. J. Bras
7. Orlando J. Rojas
8. G. Tonoli

In Polymers and Plastics

1. A. Dufresne
2. J. Bras
3. M. Sain
4. W. Hamad
5. Chuanwei Miao
6. Sabu Thomas
7. M. Belgacem
8. Khalina Abdan

In Surfaces, Coatings and Films

1. W. Hamad
2. Chuanwei Miao
3. A. Gandini
4. M. Belgacem
5. A. G. Cunha
6. Sabu Thomas
7. Orlando J. Rojas

Citations in the corpus

• Cellulose reinforced polymer composites and nanocomposites: a critical review (2013, methodology): “A variety of techniques can be applied to characterize the modified fibre surface including Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), elemental analysis, inverse gas chromatography (IGC), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), contact angle measurements, n”
• Surface esterification of cellulose fibres: Processing and characterisation of low-density polyethylene/cellulose fibres composites (2008, background): “: physical treatment such as surface oxidation activation [3] and chemical modification such as graft copolymerisation [1,4].”
• Effect of fiber loading and chemical treatments on thermophysical properties of banana fiber/polypropylene commingled composite materials (2008, background): “As a result, silane coupling agents form a bridge at the interface of the banana fiber and PP matrix and act like a compatibilizer, which binds two incompatible polymers [19,20].”
• Cellulose modified fibres in cement based composites (2009, background): “Virgin fibres presented quite low polar contribution to the surface energy, which can be attributed to surface contamination of the pulps by remaining extractives and lignin fragments, as reported elsewhere [9,29].”
• KENAF FIBRES AS REINFORCEMENT FOR POLYMERIC COMPOSITES: A REVIEW (2009, background): “…agents have been investigated, some of these anhydrides included, maleated polymer, (Panthapulakkal et al. 2005; Keener et al. 2004), isocyanates,(George et al. 2001; Qiu et al. 2005), and alkoxysilanes(Ramaswamy et al. 1995; Colom et al. 2003), as recently reviewed (Belgacem & Gandini 2005).”
• Turning polysaccharides into hydrophobic materials: a critical review. Part 1. Cellulose (2010, background): “... c-glycidylpropyltrimethoxysilane (C), phenyltrimethoxysilane (D), c-mercaptopropyltriethoxysilane (E), hexadecyltrimethoxysilane (F), c-methacrylopropyltrimethoxysilane (G), c-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (H), (2-aminoethylamino)-propyltriethoxysilane (I), 3-(phenylamino)-propyl-triethoxy silane (”