Biodegradable natural fiber polymer composites- A review

9^th World Congress on Materials Science and Engineering

June 12-14, 2017 Rome, Italy

Sree Deepthi and Abid Ali

MREC (A), India
JNTUAP, India

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Material Sci Eng

Abstract :

As per environmental prospect natural fiber has many advantages such as lower pollutant emissions, lower green house gas emissions and end of life biodegradability of components. Recently studies had proven that performance of natural fiber as per environment prospect is far better than glass fiber over its specific applications, Where the polymer matrices are derived from renewable resources such as poly lactide (PLA), thermoplastic starch (TPS), cellulose and polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs). TPS composites modulus displays a regular behavior where reinforcement effect increases with the fiber length from short length fiber (SF) to medium length fiber (MF) and fiber content. While elongation at break decreased with the increase in fiber contents and length. These composite materials with its various interesting properties may soon be competitive with the existing fossil plastic materials. This can be applied to various fields such as household items, automobiles and food packaging systems. By using this type of polymers an ecofriendly atmosphere can be created and thus hazardous effects can be reduced. However, the present low level of production and high cost restrict them for to be applied in industrial application. In addition, its hydrophilic properties make the real challenge to design the product which can be good candidate for outdoor applications.

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