Effect of antioxidants and fire retardants as mineral fillers on the physical and mechanical properties of high loading hybrid biocomposites reinforced with rice husks and sawdust

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 96-102

  Hamid, Mohd Rashid Yusof ^a   Ab Ghani, Mohd Hafizuddin ^a   Ahmad, Sahrim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Fire retardants; High loading biocomposites; Hybrid; Natural fibres; Rice husks

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANTS; BIO-COMPOSITES; COUNTER ROTATING; FRACTURED SURFACES; HIGH LOADINGS; HYBRID; INTERFACIAL BONDING; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR; MICROSTRUCTURE ANALYSIS; MINERAL FILLER; PHYSICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PRESS PROCESS; RICE HUSK; TEST SPECIMENS; THERMAL BEHAVIOURS; THERMAL GRAVIMETRIC; TWIN SCREW EXTRUDERS; WATER UPTAKE;

ADHESION; COUPLING AGENTS; ELASTICITY; FLAME RETARDANTS; IMPACT TESTING; MALEIC ANHYDRIDE; NATURAL FIBERS; PELLETIZING; REINFORCEMENT;

LOADING;

ANTIOXIDANT; COMPOSITE; ELASTICITY; FLEXURE; GRAVIMETRY; LOADING; MICROSTRUCTURE; PLANT PRODUCT; POLYMER; TENSILE STRENGTH; THERMAL REGIME; WATER UPTAKE;

EID: 84860517325     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2012.02.019     Document Type: Article

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