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Reinforcement of wet milled jute nano/micro particles in polyvinyl alcohol films

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Textile industry generate significant amount of waste fibres in form of short lengths during mechanical processing. However these short fibres possess excellent properties suitable for many other applications. The objective of this work was to use them for the preparation of nanoparticles/nanofibres as fillers in biodegradable composite applications such as food packaging, agriculture mulch films, automotive plastics, etc. The present paper concerns with jute fibres as a source of nanocellulose for reinforcement of PVA mulch films. Jute fibres were first refined to micro/nanoscale particles in form of nanofibrillar cellulose (NFC) by high energy planetary ball milling process in dry and wet condition. Wet milling was observed more efficient than dry milling in terms of unimodality of size distribution with reduction in size below 500 nm after milling for 3 hours. Later the obtained particles were used as fillers in Poly vinyl alcohol (PVA) films and their reinforcement evaluated based on thermal properties. It was observed that glass transition temperature (Tg) of PVA films improved from 84.36 °C to 95.22 °C after addition of 5 % jute particles without affecting % crystallinity and melting temperature (T m) of PVA. Dynamic mechanical analysis of composite films with 5 % jute particles showed higher value of 14×108 Pa for storage modulus in comparison to 9×108 Pa of neat composite film. The percolation effect was observed more above glass transition temperature which consequently resulted in improved transfer of stiffness from jute particles to PVA matrix above 50 °C. The percolation phenomena also explained the improvement in thermal stability by 10 °C for every increased loading of jute particles due to formation of hydrogen bonds with PVA matrix.

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Baheti, V., Militky, J. Reinforcement of wet milled jute nano/micro particles in polyvinyl alcohol films. Fibers Polym 14, 133–137 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12221-013-0133-4

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