Water vapor barrier properties of coated and filled microfibrillated cellulose composite films

BioResources

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 4370-4388

  Spence, Kelley L ^a   Venditti, Richard A ^a   Rojas, Orlando J ^a,b   Pawlak, Joel J ^a   Hubbe, Martin A ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Beeswax; Cooked starch; Internal filler; Mfc; Microfibrillated cellulose; Mineral fillers; Nanofibrillated cellulose; Nfc; Paraffin; Surface coating; Water vapor transmission rate

Indexed keywords

BEESWAX; MFC; MICROFIBRILLATED CELLULOSE; MINERAL FILLERS; NFC; SURFACE COATING; WATER VAPOR TRANSMISSION RATE;

BUILDING MATERIALS; CELLULOSE; CELLULOSE FILMS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COATINGS; FILLERS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PARAFFIN WAXES; PARAFFINS; PLASTICS APPLICATIONS; SILICATE MINERALS; STARCH; WATER VAPOR; WAXES;

COMPOSITE FILMS;

ALKANES; BEESWAX; CELLULOSE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COATINGS; FILLERS; PLASTICS; SILICATES; STARCH; WATER VAPOR; WAX;

EID: 84856505370     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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