Alternative low-cost biomass for the biocomposites industry

Natural Fibers, Biopolymers, and Biocomposites

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 159-175

  Stokke, Douglas D ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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