Tensile properties of hildegardia fibers reinforced polypropylene biocomposites

Journal of Composite Materials

Volumn 44, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1681-1687

  Xiaoyan, Li ^a   Jun, Zhang ^a   Jiaosong, He ^a   Jeevan Prasad Reddy, D ^b   Varada Rajulu, A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b SRI KRISHNADEVARAYA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

biocomposites; Hildegardia; interfacial bonding; polypropylene; tensile properties

Indexed keywords

BIO-COMPOSITES; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; FIBER LOADINGS; FRACTOGRAPHS; HILDEGARDIA; INTERFACIAL BONDING; MATRIX;

FIBERS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; THERMOPLASTICS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

REINFORCED PLASTICS;

EID: 77953938270     PISSN: 00219983     EISSN: 1530793X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021998309353963     Document Type: Article

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