Carlo Santulli, Serena Gabrielli & Graziella Roselli·Organics·2025
Most bioplastics are based on polysaccharides, which are either synthesized from a variously sourced monomer or extracted from some biomass waste. In many cases, some lignocellulosic fibers are then added to the obtained bioplastics to form biocomposites and extend their range of...
Different forms of waste from food production chain have been integrated into self-produced (DIY) matrices, based on starch or flour systems, to form biocomposites suitable for the prototyping of small design objects. The idea is to investigate the production of items with expres...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2017/37280
This work concerns the application of waste filler, consisting of scrap iron powder as received from machining in a small-scale workshop, in a self-produced thermoplastic starch (TPS) based on corn starch, acidified with acetic acid and plasticized with glycerol. The films obtain...
The extraction of cellulose nanocrystals (NCC) from cotton textile waste, constituted by 70% long fibers and 30% cotton linter, was performed through the action of sulfuric acid followed by solution neutralization with two different alkalis, namely ammonia and sodium bicarbonate,...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v36i530254
Pineapple leaf fibers (PALF), as the part of a large productive system, based on the availability of fruits for the food industry, offer a large amount of possibilities in term of use of the fibers, which are almost exclusively dedicated to the field of materials, as the reinforc...
This review surveys the research work published in the field of nanoclay (montmorillonite, MMT)-filled composites with particular reference to the effect of nanoclay (NC) introduction on the tensile, flexural, impact and compressive strength of nanocomposites. The matrix most fre...
The local availability of biowaste, which can be used as possible source of fibers, is an important trigger for research into new lignocellulosic materials for potential introduction into biocomposites: to evaluate this possibility, characterization is needed. In this work, soapb...