Mineral Microparticles and Wood Flour as Fillers of Different Biocomposites

Thermoplastic Starch/Wood Composites: Effect of Processing Technology, Interfacial Interactions and Particle Characteristics

“…According to the existing literature a relatively small number of papers have been published which consider the practical relevance of TPS/wood composites [7,[41][42][43][44][45][46]. There are even fewer paper about systematic experiments carried out as a function of fiber content in a wide composition range [2,41,42], furthermore, it is very difficult to find publications on the effect of processing methods on the properties of TPS/wood composites.…”

“…Most of them study the influence of fiber type and amount usually by determining properties at one or two fiber contents. All kinds of fibers have been used as filler in TPS including various forms of cellulose [6,[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24], jute [18,[25][26][27], sisal [28][29][30][31][32][33], wheat straw [13], flax [23,34] hemp [13,28,35,36], cotton [13,37,38], flax [19,39], ramie [20,40].According to the existing literature a relatively small number of papers have been published which consider the practical relevance of TPS/wood composites [7,[41][42][43][44][45][46]. There are even fewer paper about systematic experiments carried out as a function of fiber content in a wide composition range [2,41,…”

Thermoplastic starch/wood composites: Interfacial interactions and functional properties

“…of plasticized starch, it also has disadvantages like poor mechanical properties, water sensitivity, poor dimensional instability, etc. In order to overcome these drawbacks thermoplastic starch (TPS) is often modified by blending with other polymers (Cerclé et al 2013;Landreau et al 2009;Shirai et al 2013;Shujun et al 2005), the addition of fillers or reinforcements (Castillo et al 2013;de Carvalho et al 2001;Kuciel et al 2012;Ma et al 2005) or the preparation of nanocomposites (Bagdi et al 2006;Castillo et al 2013;Huang et al 2004). In order to maintain one of the most important advantages of starch, i.e.…”

“…All kinds of fibers have been used as reinforcement in TPS including various forms of cellulose (Avérous et al 2001 (natural cellulose fibers from leafwood); Ayadi & Dole 2011 (natural cellulose fibers from leafwood); Benezet et al 2012 (wheat straw fibers, hemp fibers, cotton linter fibers); Curvelo et al 2001 (bleach pulp fiber); Ma et al 2005 (micro winceyette fibers) ;Martins et al 2009 (bacterial cellulose and vegetable cellulose fibers); Muller et al 2009;Soykeabkaew et al 2012 (bacterial cellulose); Soykeabkaew et al 2004 (jute and flax fibers); Sreekala et al 2008), jute (Soykeabkaew et al 2012;Torres et al 2007;Wollerdorfer & Bader 1998), sisal (Girones et al 2012;Sreekumar et al 2010a;Sreekumar et al 2010b;Torres et al 2007;Wang et al 2012), wheat straw (Benezet et al 2012), hemp (Benezet et al 2012;Girones et al 2012;Kunanopparat et al 2008;Ochi 2006), cotton (Benezet et al 2012;Moriana et al 2010;Prachayawarakorn et al 2010), flax (Saiah et al 2009;Soykeabkaew et al 2004), ramie (Lu et al 2006;Sreekala et al 2008), etc. Somewhat less papers deal with TPS/wood composites (Abbott et al 2012;Agnantopoulou et al 2012;Avérous & Boquillon 2004;Chakraborty et al 2007;Kuciel et al 2012;Kuciel & Liber-Knec 2009), although wood is cheaper and simpler to handle during processing. Some of the...…”

“…The study of existing literature indicated that considering their practical relevance relatively small number of papers have been published on TPS/wood composites (Abbott et al 2012;Agnantopoulou et al 2012;Avérous & Boquillon 2004;Chakraborty et al 2007;Kuciel et al 2012;Kuciel & Liber-Knec 2009). Even less report systematic experiments carried out as a function of fiber content in a wide composition range (Abbott et al 2012;Agnantopoulou et al 2012;Avérous & Boquillon 2004).…”