Breakthroughs in materials science are the driving force behind many of today's industrial
advancements in our fast-changing high-tech world. Composite materials have proven …

Plasma technology applied to textiles is a dry, environmentally‐and worker‐friendly method
to achieve surface alteration without modifying the bulk properties of different materials. In …

The composition and the morphology of most plant fibers allow their use as reinforcement of
biocomposites. In this study, the effect of the modification of the surface of the fibers on the …

There is a remarkable increase in natural fiber-reinforced composites research over the last
three decades due to their abundance, less density, biodegradability, renewable sources …

In recent years, solving environmental problems has become an urgent task with the drain of
materials based on exhaustible petroleum and the aggravation of environmental pollution …

A novel protein immobilization method based on plasma treatment of paper on the low-cost
paper-based immunodevice was established in this work. By using a benchtop plasma …

The paper describes an optimised strategy to measure the porosity in natural fibre
composites. Particular emphasis is placed on thermoformed flax fibres reinforced poly-lactic …

ZnO/carboxymethyl chitosan (ZnO/CMCS) composite was prepared and confirmed by
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Ultraviolet–visible …

Plasma treatment has many advantages in surface modification of natural fiber made textile
products, including its effective alteration of surface properties of textiles and reducing the …

Atmospheric plasma activation and plasma coating with 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane
(APTES) were used to investigate the effect of a modified interface on the creep behaviour of …