Utilization of fibers obtained by peroxyformic acid processing of broom as reinforcing agents for biocomposites

BioResources

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2591-2610

  González, Daniel ^a,b   Campos, Ana Rita ^c   Cunha, Antonio M ^d   Santos, Valentín ^a,b   Parajó, Juan Carlos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b CITI   (Spain)

^c PIEP Innovation in Polymer Engineering   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Biocomposite; Broom; Cytisus scoparius; Injection moulding; MILOX; PLA

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPOSITE; BROOM; CYTISUS SCOPARIUS; INJECTION MOULDING; MILOX; PLA;

CELLULOSE; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; DELIGNIFICATION; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; DISSOLUTION; EXPERIMENTS; FORMIC ACID; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; INJECTION MOLDING; WATER INJECTION;

WATER ABSORPTION;

CELLULOSE; DELIGNIFICATION; DISSOLVING; EXPERIMENTATION; FORMIC ACID; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; INJECTION MOLDING; WATER ABSORPTION;

CYTISUS; CYTISUS SCOPARIUS;

EID: 80053216679     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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