A new perspective in multifunctional composite materials

Aly-Hassan, Mohamed S.

doi:10.1016/b978-0-323-26434-1.00002-7

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“…The typical yield is $34 tonnes per hectare of green plants, which provides $2 tonnes per hectare of dry retted fiber. The current annual worldwide production of jute fiber is $3.2 million tonnes (Aly-Hassan, 2015). Jute is one of the world's most important natural fibers second only to cotton in terms of production.…”

Section: Jute Plantmentioning

confidence: 99%

The effect of surface treatments and graphene-based modifications on mechanical properties of natural jute fiber composites: A review

Islam

Dulal

et al. 2022

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Natural fiber reinforced composites (FRC) are of great interests, because of their biodegradability, recyclability, and environmental benefits over synthetic FRC. Natural jute FRC could provide an environmentally sustainable, light weight, and cost-effective alternative to synthetic FRC. However, the application of natural jute FRC is limited because of their poor mechanical and interfacial properties. Graphene and its derivatives could potentially be applied to modify jute fiber surface for manufacturing natural FRC with excellent mechanical properties, and lower environmental impacts. Here, we review the physical and chemical treatments, and graphene-based modifications of jute fibers, and their effect on mechanical properties of jute FRC. We introduce jute fiber structure, chemical compositions, and their potential applications first. We then provide an overview of various surface treatments used to improve mechanical properties of jute FRC. We discuss and compare various graphene derivative-based surface modifications of jute fibers, and their impact on the performance of FRC. Finally, we provide our future perspective on graphene-based jute fibers research to enable next generation strong and sustainable FRC for high performance engineering applications without conferring environmental problems.

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Section: Jute Plantmentioning

confidence: 99%

The effect of surface treatments and graphene-based modifications on mechanical properties of natural jute fiber composites: A review

Islam

Dulal

et al. 2022

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“…Aly-Hassan et al [ 86 ] suggested an innovative composite design to be used as smart inclined roofs for houses in the snowiest countries. The sandwich structure was comprised of a nonwoven jute core with glass fiber reinforced composite (GFRP) skins.…”

Section: Jute Based Composites: Processing and Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Current Development and Future Perspective on Natural Jute Fibers and Their Biocomposites

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The increasing trend of the use of synthetic products may result in an increased level of pollution affecting both the environment and living organisms. Therefore, from the sustainability point of view, natural, renewable and biodegradable materials are urgently needed to replace environmentally harmful synthetic materials. Jute, one of the natural fibers, plays a vital role in developing composite materials that showed potential in a variety of applications such as household, automotive and medical appliances. This paper first reviews the characterization and performance of jute fibers. Subsequently, the main focus is shifted towards research advancements in enhancing physical, mechanical, thermal and tribological properties of the polymeric materials (i.e., synthetic or biobased and thermoplastic or thermoset plastic) reinforced with jute fibers in a variety of forms such as particle, short fiber or woven fabric. It is understood that the physio-mechanical properties of jute-polymer composites largely vary based on the fiber processing and treatment, fiber shape and/or size, fabrication processes, fiber volume fraction, layering sequence within the matrix, interaction of the fiber with the matrix and the matrix materials used. Furthermore, the emerging research on jute fiber, such as nanomaterials from jute, bioplastic packaging, heavy metal absorption, electronics, energy device or medical applications and development of jute fiber composites with 3D printing, is explored. Finally, the key challenges for jute and its derivative products in gaining commercial successes have been highlighted and potential future directions are discussed.

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“…to enhance composite properties beyond improving mechanical properties. Examples include the ability to self-heal defects, to harvest and store energy, and to increase electrical conductivity [124]. Although achieving all of these additional functionalities through interleaving alone is unlikely, interleaves provide a cheap and simple addition to a composite lay-up with proven ability to increase fracture toughness and are excellent candidate materials to deliver nanofibres or nanoparticles to precise locations within the composite.…”

Section: Multifunctionalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Materials systems for interleave toughening in polymer composites

Vallack

Sampson

2022

J Mater Sci

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We review the literature describing the use of interleaves to increase interlaminar fracture toughness in fibre-reinforced polymer composites and hence to improve damage tolerance. From an analysis of data provided in the literature from the use of microfibre and nanofibre interleaves, we show that the performance of these widely researched systems is clearly differentiated when plotted against the mean coverage of the interleaf. Using a simple analysis, we suggest that this can be attributed to the influence of their porous architectures on the infusion of resin. We show also that the superior toughening performance of microfibre interleaves is only weakly influenced by the choice of fibre. We find also that the inclusion of carbon nanotubes within interleaves to deliver multifunctional composites can be optimised by using a hybrid system with microfibres. Graphical abstract

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A new perspective in multifunctional composite materials

Cited by 20 publications

References 27 publications

The effect of surface treatments and graphene-based modifications on mechanical properties of natural jute fiber composites: A review

The effect of surface treatments and graphene-based modifications on mechanical properties of natural jute fiber composites: A review

Current Development and Future Perspective on Natural Jute Fibers and Their Biocomposites

Materials systems for interleave toughening in polymer composites

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