The utilization of bamboo charcoal enhances wood plastic composites with excellent mechanical and thermal properties

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

“…However, it should be noted that an excess loading of natural fiber would also diminish flexural and tensile performances due to inefficient stress transfer caused by filler agglomeration, which leaves plenty of holes within the composite and decreases the contact area between the reinforcement and the matrix (Lei et al 2015). In contrast to HDPE, bamboo flour is composed of polyhydroxy natural polymer, and it features highly hydrophilic character due to plenty of lignocellulose, which must significantly affect the water or moisture absorption behavior of its polymer composite (Li et al 2013;Li et al 2014;Wang et al 2014;Lei et al 2015;Yeh et al 2015). For example, under a mechanism of general Fickian diffusion, it is found that the moisture diffusion coefficient (Dm) of bamboo fiber/HDPE composite would be in the range of 0.115×10 -8 to 1.267× 10 -8 cm 2 /s.…”

“…Unfortunately, under the current processing capacity of China, over 60 wt% of bamboo would become residue such as flour (whose units suffer greater damage and are different from general fiber), thus posing a threat to the environment (Zhou et al 2012). Similarly, HDPE is a major product of the Chinese chemical industry and serves as a commonly-used matrix of polymer composite and key source of white pollution (Du et al 2014;Fang et al 2014;Li et al 2014;Ren et al 2014). Therefore, the high valueadded utilization of a moso bamboo flour/HDPE system holds promise to provide huge economic, social, and ecological benefits.…”

Study on the Torque Rheological Behavior of Wood Flour/Chitosan/Polyvinyl Chloride Composites

“…The fibers exhibit excellent flexibility and fatigue durability (Segerholm et al 2012;Kaewkuk et al 2013;Petchwattana and Covavisaruch 2013;Cavdar et al 2014;Li et al 2014;Ren et al 2015), which provide unique properties that include outstanding dimensional stability, water resistance, biological durability, and recyclability (Rangaraj and Smith 2000;Stark 2001). Currently, WPC are enthusiastically used in outdoor decking and landscaping, and in the near future, they are also expected to be used in a number of applications such as outdoor decoration, furniture, sports ground equipment, railing, and in the automobile industry (Clemons 2002;Geng and Laborie 2010;Crookston et al 2011).…”

Preparation and characterization of composites from plastic waste and sugar cane fiber

“…It can be noted that there are components that were not melted and kept in the samples as charged particles. The Figure 4b highlights the empty spaces between melted and not melted polymers (white points).This indicates the necessity of some kind of reinforcement charge or some coupling agent to increase the interfacial adhesion [42,43] . Thakur et al have shown that is possible a surface modification, for example, of natural polymers using silane coupling agent [44] or graft copolymerization [45] , this change in morphology can causes changes in the properties of the polymers.…”