Recycling the Cellulosic Biomass to Competent Advanced Material

Remediation and recovery of methyl orange from aqueous solution onto acrylic acid grafted Ficus carica fiber: Isotherms, kinetics and thermodynamics

“…The shifting of absorption peaks in FTIR spectra of modified fiber (Fig. 1b) [22]. In case of dye loaded modified fiber (Fig.…”

“…Ceric ion in water reacts in the following manner [22]. In case of cellulose C 2 , C 3 and C 6 hydroxyl are the most active sites for the grafting.…”

“…The cellulosic fibers have hydroxyl groups, therefore, they are amenable to chemical treatment which opens up the cellulose matrix, improves surface and molecular retention characteristics, and provides a potential method for altering the physiochemical and mechanical properties [22]. The grafting improves the adsorption capacity of the fiber significantly by forming many reactive groups on the polymer chains.…”

Natural Fibers Reinforced Advanced Materials

“…Scanty information is available in the existing literature on the effective utilization of this fiber as reinforcement material. Chauhan and Kaith have made various attempts to utilize the fiber and explore its viability as backbone for graft copolymerization and as reinforcement to phenol formaldehyde matrix based composites [28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35].…”

Reprocessing the Natural Fibers to Procure Advanced Materials

“…Ionic polymerization has to be carried-out in presence of anhydrous medium or in presence of considerable quantity of alkali metal hydroxide. Usually, low molecular weight graft copolymers are obtained in ionic grafting, while in case of free radical grafting high molecular weight copolymers could be prepared [8][9][10][11]. A number of methods are used for the generation of active sites on the polymeric back-bone and are broadly classified as:…”