Bast fiber plants require a post-harvest process to yield useable natural cellulosic fibers, denoted as retting or degumming. It encompasses the degradation of cell wall’s non-cellulosic gummy substances (NCGs), facilitating fibers separations, setting fiber’s quality, and determining downstream usages. Due inconvenience traditional practices, bacterial inoculum enzyme applications for gained a...

This work focuses on the study of red brick doped with reed fibers. These properties have been studied using characterizations techniques. In this context, we used Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis stability configuration, chemical structures surface (morphology porosity). The synthesis protocol is followed ac...

In this study, conventional restorative glass ionomer cement (GIC) was modified by embedding it with mechanically processed cellulose fibers. Two concentrations of fibers were weighed and agglutinated into the GIC during manipulation, yielding Experimental Groups 2 (G2; 3.62 wt% of fibers) and 3 (G3; 7.24 wt% of fibers), which were compared against a control group containing no fibers (G1). The...

This paper describes preparation of carboxymethylated and carboxylated cellulosic fibers from waste paper. Chemical properties of the product were distinguished by Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction (XRD) spectral analysis. To produce carboxylated and crosslinked fibers and also to increase the anionic surface charge of the fibers, maleic anhydride was used in ...

In this study we prepared high grammage, robust, and structurally dense CNF (Cellulose nano fibrils) films with and without wet strength crosslinker KymeneTM (PAE, a polyamide-epichlorohydrin resin). Both selfcrosslink of PAE network and hetero crosslink between cellulose and PAE were formed at elevated temperature. Besides expected wet strength improvement, we also discovered unique stress-str...

The isolation of cellulosic fibers and their applications in composite materials have drawn considerable interest due to outstanding thermal mechanical properties combined with light-weight character, biodegradability, renewability. Bamboo is a fast-growing plant, its include sustainability excellent tensile strength. In this study, bamboo from the culms shoots Dendrocalamus asper were treated ...

The main objective of this research was to study the influence an enzymatic treatment process date palm fibers on their chemical and morphological properties as well physical mechanical characteristics composites filled with raw treated fibers. To end, three extraction approaches were considered (a combination xylanase pectinase enzymes, enzymes followed by a one enzyme xylanase). Chemical anal...