Surface Modification of Flaxseed Fiber Bundles for Composite Materials
Natural fiber reinforced composite materials (NFRC) have been the prime area of research due to worldwide environmental law reforms and consumer awareness shift towards sustainable substitutes for the conventional materials.Hence, exploration of various underutilized agricultural crop wastes as the new potential resource is vital.Flaxseed plants can become abundant source of fibers for NFRC.Surface modification of flaxseed fiber bundles was performed with 10 g/L and 20 g/L Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH) solutions.The composites were fabricated by compression molding with Polybutylene Succinate (PBS) as a matrix and their tensile strengths were subsequently analyzed and compared.SEM analysis was adopted to investigate the surface morphology of composites.The alkali treatment resulted in improved surface roughness of the fiber bundles with better matrix penetration and wetting of fiber bundles.Evaluation of the tensile property revealed acceptable results.The results revealed significant improvements in the surface roughness of fiber bundles as well as fiber-matrix interface after alkali treatments.Hence, this study established the potential of flaxseed fiber bundles as a valuable reinforcement resource and the fundamental data for their possible applications in non-conventional textile applications, especially in NFRC materials with comparable and acceptable properties.
flaxseed fiber alkali treatment tensile property NFRC
Sayed Waqar Azhar Yu Liu Fujun Xu Yiping Qiu
College of Textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai, China National Cotton and Textile Quality Supervision and Inspection Center, Aksu , Xinjiang, China
国际会议
2016 Sino-Africa International Symposium on Textiles and Apparel (SAISTA2016)(2016中非纺织服装国际论坛)
蒙巴萨
英文
218-221
2016-08-02（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）