Helium plasma treatment of ethanol-pretreated ramie fabrics for improving the mechanical properties of ramie/polypropylene composites

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 51, Issue , 2013, Pages 299-305

  Li, Ying ^a,b   Moyo, Senelisile ^a,b   Ding, Zhiyue ^b   Shan, Zhongde ^c   Qiu, Yiping ^a,b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c National Key Laboratory of Advanced Forming Technology and Equipment   (China)

Author keywords

Ethanol; Mechanical properties; Plasma treatment; Ramie fabric; XPS

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; CONTACT ANGLE; ETHANOL; HELIUM; HYDROPHOBICITY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; POLYPROPYLENES; REINFORCED PLASTICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHEAR STRENGTH; TENSILE STRENGTH; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

INTERFACIAL ADHESIONS; INTERLAMINAR SHEAR STRENGTH; PLASMA TREATMENT; POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITE; RAMIE FABRICS; ROUGHENED SURFACES; SURFACE HYDROPHOBICITY; WATER CONTACT ANGLE MEASUREMENT;

HEMP;

ADHESION; CELLULOSE; COMPOSITE; ETHANOL; HYDROPHOBICITY; POLYMER; RESIN; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TENSILE STRENGTH; WETTABILITY; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ETHANOL; HEMP; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOELECTRONS; PLASMA; RAMIE; REINFORCED PLASTIC; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TENSILE STRENGTH; WATER REPELLENCE;

BOEHMERIA NIVEA;

EID: 84886259342     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2013.09.028     Document Type: Article

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