Hemp Fibre Reinforced Poly(Lactic Acid) Composites

M.A. Sawpan; K.L. Pickering; Alan Fernyhough

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.29-30.337

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Influence of Alkali Treatment on the Interfacial Bond Strength of Industrial Hemp Fibre Reinforced Epoxy Composites: Effect of Variation from the Ideal Stoicheometric Ratio of Epoxy Resin to Curing Agent
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The Effects of Residual Lignin Content on Wood Fibre Reinforced Polypropylene Composites
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Electrical Spectroscopy Studies of Organic/Inorganic Nano Composites
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Improvement of the Red Mud Polymer-Matrix Composites by Organophillization of Red Mud
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Hemp Fibre Reinforced Poly(Lactic Acid) Composites
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Natural and Man-Made Cellulose Fiber Reinforced Hybrid Polypropylene Composites: Effect of Fire Retardants
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Comparative Study of Copper Diffusion in Plasma Treated Low-k Dielectric Thin Film Using XPS and SIMS
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Growth and Evaluation of GaN Grown on Patterned Sapphire Substrates
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Characteristics Comparison between GaN Epilayers Grown on Patterned and Unpatterned Sapphire Substrate (0001)
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Hemp Fibre Reinforced Poly(Lactic Acid) Composites

Abstract:

The potential of hemp fibre as a reinforcing material for Poly(lactic acid) (PLA) was investigated. Good interaction between hemp fibre and PLA resulted in increases of 100% for Young’s modulus and 30% for tensile strength of composites containing 30 wt% fibre. Different predictive ‘rule of mixtures’ models (e.g. Parallel, Series and Hirsch) were assessed regarding the dependence of tensile properties on fibre loading. Limited agreement with models was observed. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and x-ray diffraction (XRD) studies showed that hemp fibre increased the degree of crystallinity in PLA composites.