[HTML][HTML] Use of duck feather waste as a reinforcement medium in polymer composites

AK Basak, MR Hossain, A Pramanik, DR Shah… - Cleaner Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Duck feathers are keratin-based natural fibres. After steaming, drying and milling, duck
feather waste (DFW) was transformed into powder and incorporated in unsaturated …

Comparative Mechanical Properties of Duck Feather–Jute Fiber Reinforced Hybrid Composites

RA Kurien, A Biju, AK Raj, A Chacko, B Joseph… - Transactions of the …, 2023 - Springer
The demand of consumers is ecofriendly fibrous materials which can be used for the
manufacture of composites. The need for products made from wood–thermoplastic …

Biodegradable composites containing chicken feathers as matrix and jute fibers as reinforcement

N Reddy, J Jiang, Y Yang - Journal of Polymers and the Environment, 2014 - Springer
This research demonstrates that chicken feathers can be used as matrix to develop
completely biodegradable composites with properties similar to that of composites having …

Design and characterization of sustainable bio‐composites from waste chicken feather keratin and thermoplastic polyurethane

F Pourjavaheri, OAH Jones, M Czajka… - Polymer …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A polyurethane‐based polymer, and a sustainable, natural resource in the form of chicken
feather (keratin) fibers were combined to form a bio‐composite via solvent–casting …

[HTML][HTML] Utilization of waste chicken feather for the preparation of eco-friendly and sustainable composite

MF Ali, MS Hossain, TS Moin, S Ahmed… - Cleaner Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Waste material from a poultry farm, especially chicken feathers, is going to be a big concern
for a clean environment as the quantity is mounting day by day. Just discarding waste …

[HTML][HTML] Turning Discarded Agricultural Remnants and Poultry Waste into Usable Hybrid Polymer Matrix Reinforcements: An Experimental Study

NG Balasubramanian, R Balasubramanian - Journal of Composites …, 2024 - mdpi.com
The primary objective of the present study was to transform discarded agricultural remnants
and poultry waste into value-added materials. Rice straw and chicken feathers are disposed …

Composites from chicken feathers quill and recycled polypropylene

EJC Amieva, C Velasco-Santos… - Journal of …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Recycled polypropylene composites reinforced with quill from chicken feathers were
prepared by extrusion process. Chicken feathers, a worldwide waste without any relevant …

Effect of peacock feather and rose stem fibre hybridisation on mechanical properties of polystyrene composites

S Afsara, M Hasan - Advances in Materials and Processing …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Natural fibre composites are developed to combat environmental challenges posed by non-
biodegradable polymers such as littering in landfills. Other advantages of such composites …

Avian keratin fibre-based bio-composites

F Pourjavaheri, F Mohades, O Jones… - World Journal of …, 2017 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to use the solvent–casting–evaporation method to prepare new
bio-composites with thermoplastic poly (ether urethane)(TPU-polyether) as the polymer …

Biopolymer-waste fiber reinforcement for earthen materials: Capillary, mechanical, impact, and abrasion performance

H Gonzalez-Calderon, G Araya-Letelier, S Kunze… - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
The poultry industry, highly prevalent worldwide, generates approximately 7.7× 106 metric
tons of chicken feathers (CFs), which become a major environmental challenge due to their …