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Thermoplastic composites filled with wood-base fillers have gained increasing attention, because compared to virgin polymers they have many advantages of light weight, high strength and stiffness, low cost, biodegradability and renewability. These advantages let them find a large dispersal in many areas of technical applications. However, poor interfacial interaction between hydrophilic wood-base fillers and hydrophobic polymer matrices should be improved to get reasonable physical properties for their wide applications. The interfacial interaction could be improved by addition of coupling agents and chemical modifications of wood-base fillers. To improve physical properties of the thermoplastic/wood composites, further nanofillers can be incorporated. This review summarizes recent developments in thermoplastic/wood composites and deals with wood-base fillers for thermoplastics, various interface modification methods and various thermoplastic/wood composites as well as nanocomposites. This review can provide reasonable future perspectives in this research area and stimulate development of new innovative thermoplastic/wood composites as well as nanocomposites.
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Dae Su Kim is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Chungbuk National University in Korea. He received his B.S. degree (Seoul National University, Korea), M.S. degree (KAIST, Korea), and Ph.D. degree (KAIST, Korea) all in Chemical Engineering and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Minnesota at Twin cities. He worked as a senior researcher in the Laboratory of Polymer Composites at the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technologies before joining Chungbuk National University in 1994. He was a visiting professor at the University of California at Davis, Queensland University and Hokkaido University. His research interests include processing and physical properties of polymer composites and nanocomposites, polymer-filler interfacial interactions, modification of fillers, and green polymer composites and nanocomposites with biomass based fillers.
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Borah, J.S., Kim, D.S. Recent development in thermoplastic/wood composites and nanocomposites: A review. Korean J. Chem. Eng. 33, 3035–3049 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11814-016-0183-6
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