COMPOSITE NN EPOXY

Glass fiber

Glass fiber

Glass fiber

Glass fiber

Glass fiber

Callister, W. D., & Rethwisch, D. G. (2007). Materials science and engineering: an introduction, New York: Wiley.

Glass fiber

Glass fiber

Glass fiber

Glass fiber

Glass fiber

Glass fiber

Nature fiber

Nature fiber

Nature fiber
Plant fibres are a renewable raw material and their availability is more or less unlimited.
When natural reinforced plastics were subjected, at the end of their life cycle, to a
combustion process or landfill, the released amount of CO2 of the fibres is neutral with
respect to the assimilated amount during there growth.
The abrasive nature of natural fibres is much lower compared to that of glass-fibres, which
leads to advantages with regard to technical, material recycling or process of composite
materials in general.
Natural fibre reinforced plastics by using biodegradable polymers as matrix are the most
environmental friendly materials which can be composted at the end of their life cycle.
Unfortunately, the overall physical properties of those composites are far away from
glass-fibre reinforced thermoplastics. Further, a balance between life performance and
biodegradation has to be developed

Nature fiber

Nature fiber

Nature fiber
Cellulose
- Bn kt tinh
- Mch thng

Nature fiber
Hemi-cellulose
- Mw nh
- Mch nhnh

Lignin

- Cu trc phc tp
- Khng kt tinh
- C l rt thp

Nature fiber

Nature fiber
Physical treatment
Corona treatment

Alkali treatment

Nature fiber
Chemical treatment

Weak boundary layers coupling agents eliminate weak boundary layers,

Deformable layers coupling agents produce a tough, flexible layer,
Restrained layers coupling agents develop a highly crosslinked interphase region,
with a modulus
intermediate between that of substrate and of the polymer,
Wettability coupling agents improve the wetting between polymer and substrate
(critical surface
tension factor),
Chemical bonding coupling agents form covalent bonds with both materials, and
Acidbase effect coupling agents alter acidity of substrate surface.

Nature fiber
Chemical treatment

Impregnation of fibres
Chemical coupling
Acetylation of natural fibres