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Hemp is one of the annual crops whose use has increased in recent years through different applications. This work compares the properties of PLA-based biocomposites, where different hemp structures resulting from a side stream from hemp production were used, such as hemp fibre, hemp pulp, shives and hemp dust. We have also produced hemp-based nanofibrils and compared their effect on the viscosity with the aim of finding novel applications for hemp. A wood-based cellulose was used as reference materials in both the biocomposite and nanofibril studies.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge funding from the NoMa-project, Novel structural materials with multi-scale fibre components, funded by the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation (TEKES). Sari Asikainen and Jari Leino are acknowledged for performing pulping and ozonation trials.
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Immonen, K., Lahtinen, P., Isokangas, P., Torvinen, K. (2018). Potential of Hemp in Thermoplastic Biocomposites—The Effect of Fibre Structure. In: Fangueiro, R., Rana, S. (eds) Advances in Natural Fibre Composites. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64641-1_1
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