All-cellulose composites from unbleached hardwood kraft pulp reinforced with nanofibrillated cellulose

Cellulose

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2909-2921

  Alcala M ^a   Gonzalez I ^a   Boufi, S ^b   Vilaseca, F ^a   Mutje P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Biocomposites; Intrinsic mechanical properties; Mechanical properties; Nanofibrillated cellulose; Unbleached kraft pulp

Indexed keywords

BIO-COMPOSITES; BLEACHED EUCALYPTUS PULPS; DEGREE OF POLYMERIZATION; NANOFIBRILLATED CELLULOSE; NANOFIBRILLATED CELLULOSE (NFC); TEMPO-MEDIATED OXIDATION; UNBLEACHED KRAFT PULPS; WATER RETENTION VALUE;

CATIONIC POLYMERIZATION; CELLULOSE; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ELASTIC MODULI; KRAFT PULP; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; REINFORCEMENT; TENSILE STRENGTH; UNBLEACHED PULP;

HARDWOODS;

CELLULOSE DERIVATIVES; COMPOSITES; DENSITY; HARDWOODS; KRAFT PULPS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; POLYMERIZATION; TENSILE STRENGTH; UNBLEACHED PULPS;

EID: 84888008272     PISSN: 09690239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10570-013-0085-2     Document Type: Article

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