Microfoaming of flax and wood fibre reinforced polypropylene composites

Holz als Roh - und Werkstoff

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 30-37

  Bledzki, Andrzej K ^a   Zhang, Wenyang ^b   Faruk, Omar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^b AM Plastic Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; NATURAL FIBERS; POLYPROPYLENES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

FIBER REINFORCED POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITES; MICROCELLULAR COMPOSITES; POLYMER MICROFOAMS;

WOOD;

POLYPROPYLENE; REINFORCED PLASTIC; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WOOD FIBERS;

EID: 14644413449     PISSN: 00183768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/S00107-004-0545-3     Document Type: Article

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