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Property Enhanced Natural Fiber Composite Materials Based on Chemical Modification

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Science and Technology of Polymers and Advanced Materials

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Agro-based resources, also referrered to as lignocellulosics, are resources that contain cellulose, hemicelluloses, and lignin. Lignocellulosics include wood, agricultural residues, water plants, grasses, and other plant substances. When considering lignocellulosics as possible engineering materials, there are several very basic concepts that must be considered. First, lignocellulosics are hygroscopic resources that were designed to perform, in nature, in a wet enviornment. Secondly, nature is programmed to recycle lignocellulosics in a timely way through biological, thermal, aqueous, photochemical, chemical, and mechanical degradations.

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  1. USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, One Gifford Pinchot Drive, Madison, WI, 53705-2366, USA

    Roger M. Rowell

  2. Department of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 63706, USA

    Roger M. Rowell

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  1. Photonics Research Laboratory, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA

    Paras N. Prasad (Director) (Director)

  2. Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

    James E. Mark (Distinguished Research Professor) (Distinguished Research Professor)

  3. Institute of Graduate Studies, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

    Sherif H. Kandil

  4. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., USA

    Zakya H. Kafafi

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Rowell, R.M. (1998). Property Enhanced Natural Fiber Composite Materials Based on Chemical Modification. In: Prasad, P.N., Mark, J.E., Kandil, S.H., Kafafi, Z.H. (eds) Science and Technology of Polymers and Advanced Materials. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0112-5_63

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