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Hierarchical Vegetal Fiber Reinforced Composites

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Vegetable Fiber Composites and their Technological Applications

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Sustainability has become the prime focus nowadays for scientific strategies; hence researchers are keen on developing more sustainable materials displaying properties that may be comparable to conventional materials. Owing to their environmental-friendly nature, sustainability and good specific properties natural fibers have succeeded in attracting many researchers and industries to utilize them as reinforcements in the production of Polymer Matrix Composites (PMCs). However, PMCs reinforced with man-made fibers like carbon, glass, and aramid have exhibited better performance in comparison with PMCs strengthened with cellulosic fibers. One of the reasons for PMCs reinforced with natural fibers displaying lower mechanical properties is the inadequate interfacial adhesion between a hydrophobic matrix and hydrophilic natural fibers. Hence in order to achieve good interfacial bonding among fiber and matrix, a lot of research has been taking place in the direction of achieving hierarchical nature into the composites by incorporating nanomaterials in any of the constituents. In the view of maintaining sustainability, this book chapter emphasizes the detailed description of various natural fibers and green nano reinforcements. A detailed description of inducing hierarchical nature into the biocomposites via incorporating reinforcements at different scales such as Micro Crystalline Cellulose (MCC), Cellulose Nanocrystals (CNC), and Bacterial Cellulose (BC) and recent studies in this area has been reported in the latter part of this chapter.

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Sanivada, U.K., Mármol, G., Fangueiro, R. (2021). Hierarchical Vegetal Fiber Reinforced Composites. In: Jawaid, M., Khan, A. (eds) Vegetable Fiber Composites and their Technological Applications. Composites Science and Technology . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1854-3_17

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