Effects of modifications of bamboo cellulose fibers on the improved mechanical properties of cellulose reinforced poly(lactic acid) composites

Interfacial Characterization and Optimal Preparation of Novel Bamboo Plastic Composite Engineering Materials

“…For both the modified and control sample, major sharp peaks always occurred at a 2θ value of around 16°, 22°, and 35°, which was caused by diffraction planes (101), (002), (040), and in accordance with the typical cellulose I polymorph (Zhao 2012;Lu et al 2014;Wei et al 2014). Overall, no evident variation was observed in position and shape of peaks, partly indicating that the crystal structure never changed, as the combination between silane and bamboo would not occur on cellulose.…”

“…However, to the authors' best knowledge, the application of silane to this combination has been barely reported on, with the loading level of natural fiber among previous works generally lower (<50%), thereby failing to make full use of potential resources (Fang et al 2014;Lu et al 2014;Luo et al 2014;Yeh et al 2015). Since data findings and study conclusions (especially the mechanism regarding interfacial bonding) may change greatly under different materials and processes, targeted research on this silane modified bamboo plastic composite is undoubtedly very necessary (Zakikhani et al 2014).…”

“…For the former, aramid, carbon, glass, and graphite fibers serve as excellent reinforcements, but the scarcity of petroleum resources, relatively complicated processes, high energy consumption, high initial cost, and poor biodegradability have caused their recession (Lu et al 2014;Zakikhani et al 2014). For the latter, the renewable, inexpensive, biocompatible characteristics, and desirable performance have allowed natural fibers to gain more impetus (Saba et al 2015).…”

Comparison of the Properties of Fiberboard Composites with Bamboo Green, Wood, or their Combination as the Fibrous Raw Material

“…Figure 3a shows B1W0 exhibited a lower storage modulus retention ratio than B0W1 from 50 °C to 210 °C, which indicated that the stiffness properties of B1W0 were more thermally unstable than those of B0W1 (Ren et al 2014). This could be explained by the lower interfacial bonding in B1W0, which made the stress transfer not very efficient; hence, it was more likely for the stiffness properties of B1W0 to be negatively affected by the increase in temperature (Lu et al 2014). Figure 3b shows B1W0 gave a higher loss factor than B0W1 from 50 °C to 210 °C, which indicated that the viscosity and elasticity of B1W0 was higher and lower than that of B0W1, respectively (Song et al 2017b).…”

Preliminary study for acetylation of cassava bagasse starch and microfibrillated cellulose of bamboo

“…In this research it was considered to prepare bioplastic or cassava bagasse starch-based biocomposite reinforced with microfibrillated cellulose of bamboo, bamboo cellulose fiber. Bamboo denotes as potential fiber sources for biocomposites matrix [17][18], as composite filler for polyvinylchloride (PVC) [15], reinforcing nanocomposite starch-polyvinylacetate (PVA) [12], reinforcing polylactic acid (PLA) [20], reinforcing starch-based composite [21]. However, both (cassava bagasse starch and bamboo microfibrillated cellulose) have shortcomings regard with their properties.…”