Natural fiber such as bamboo fiber, oil palm empty fruit bunch (OPEFB) fiber, kenaf fiber, and
sugar palm fiber-reinforced polymer composites are being increasingly developed for …

Fiber treatments and coupling agents have been applied by composites researchers to
improve the functionality in the flexural loading of natural fiber reinforced composites. This …

Global concerns over environmental issues have led to a tremendous growth in sustainable
materials emerging from biobased plastics and their composites (biocomposites). This class …

In this study, expanded polyethylene powder (EPE) and mica mineral were utilized in
varying proportions as fillers in a solvated polystyrene-based resin (PBR) matrix. The hand …

To meet the growing demand for the use of environmentally and friendly materials in various
applications, many efforts have been done in order to provide lighweighting, biodegradable …

In this work, the effect of glass fiber hybridization with the randomly oriented natural fibers
has been analyzed. The banana (B), sisal (S) fibers were chopped and woven E-glass (G) …

This new edition of a bestseller incorporates recent developments and advances in
thermoplastics with regard to materials development, processing, properties, and …

Natural fibers offer many advantages over synthetic fibers but the notable disadvantage of
natural fibers is its hydrophilic nature. Due to this nature an incompatibility between the fiber …

In this work, the naturally available mat shaped luffa fibres were processed and the
reinforced fibres were made in three different shapes like particles, short fibres, and mat …

The purpose of this study is to minimize the environmental impact and to reduce the cost of
petroleum-derived polystyrene by the use of date palm leaves remnants in the production of …