Chemical treatments on plant-based natural fibre reinforced polymer composites: An overview
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...Alkali treatment also modifies cellulose structure; modest treatments have been seen to bring about increased cellulose crystallinity considered to be due to removal of materials that could obstruct cellulose crystallinity, whereas at harsher treatments crystalline cellulose has been converted to amorphous material [61,62]....
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...The reagent functional groups in the chemical treatments have ability to react on the fiber structures and alter the fiber composition [9]....
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...At temperatures as high as 240C, natural fibers start degrading whereas constituents of fiber, such as hemicelluloses, cellulose, lignin, and others, start degrading at different levels of temperature; for example, at 200C lignin starts to decompose whereas at temperatures higher than this other constituents will also degrade [9]....
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...The surface of the fibers is cleaned during the chemical treatments to ensure there are no impurities which increases the fiber surface roughness and preventing the moisture absorption via the removal of the coat of OH groups of fiber as seen in equation below [5, 9]:...
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...Development of fibers and materials that provide services are two important aspects which should be considered while degradating natural fibers [9]....
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...In a review of chemical treatments of natural fibers, Kabir and coworkers [9] concurred that treatment is an important factor that has to be considered when processing natural fibers....
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...In accordance with a specific type of fibre, cellulose microfibrils have their own cell geometry which is a factor responsible for the properties of the fibre [2]....
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...These two components are combined in order to achieve specific characteristics and properties [2]....
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...These parameters determine the characterization factor for fibres [2-4]....
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...This results strong adhesion at the interface and improves composite properties [2]....
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