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Production of bamboo fiber reinforced fibrillated poly(lactic acid) (PLA) material obtained by a papermaking process

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A devised beating process was applied, which enabled the formation of slurry consisting of uniformly dispersed fibrillated polylactic acid (PLA) fibers with bamboo fiber, and the polymer material was obtained by a conventional papermaking process. Owing to the fast dewatering time, good repeatability and the facility to manufacture on a large scale, this process was used. It was revealed that the beaten PLA fiber was overall in machinery extrusion by the results of optical microscope and scanning electron microscope (SEM) observations. The improvement in the tensile index, burst index, tear index and other mechanical properties was considered as a key benefit as a result of adding bamboo fiber.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Pulp & Paper Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China

    Ruibin Wang  (王瑞彬), Rendang Yang & Fei Yang  (杨飞)

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Funded by thethe National Key Technology R&D Program for the 12th Five-Year Plan(No. 2013BAC01B03) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universties(2014ZZ0062)

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Wang, R., Yang, R. & Yang, F. Production of bamboo fiber reinforced fibrillated poly(lactic acid) (PLA) material obtained by a papermaking process. J. Wuhan Univ. Technol.-Mat. Sci. Edit. 30, 429–432 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11595-015-1165-y

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