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A vacuum assistant resin infusion moulding (VARIM) was adopted to prepare a new-style and environmental friendly thermoplastic composite consisting of anionic polyamide-6 (APA-6) and textile-ramie fiber. However, the intensive polymerization-inhibition and fiber-discoloration phenomena were found in the reactive processing. In order to overcome these problems, two methods were used to suppress the reaction between the ramie fiber and APA-6, which are the surface modification of ramie fiber and a new initiator with a low activity. Finally, the inhibition and discoloration phenomena were suppressed significantly, which overcame the major challenge during the preparation of ramie fiber reinforced APA-6 composites by reactive processing. The composites showed a good polymerization during VARIM process. The tensile strength and flexural modulus of the obtained composites were increased by 21 % and 26 % respectively compared with that of pure APA-6. It is important to find that there were some interactions between APA-6 and ramie fiber, which produced a good interface characters. This work not only opens new avenues for the development of renewable composites, but also further broadens the applications of the natural fibers.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NNSFC Grants 51803104), China Postdoctoral Fund (2019M652154) and the Opening Project of State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering (Sichuan University) (sklpme2019-4-28).
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Shi, H., Xia, L., Guo, Z. et al. Manufacture and Performance of Textile-ramie Fiber Reinforced Anionic Polyamide 6 Composites. Fibers Polym 20, 1705–1715 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12221-019-8968-y
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