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Abstract
Growing environmental awareness throughout the world has triggered a paradigm shift towards designing materials compatible with the environment. Coira lignocelluosic natural fiberhas emerging importance as an engineering material due to its high tensile strength and elongation properties. The advantages of natural lignocellulosic fibers include acceptable specific strength properties, low cost, low density and biodegradability. This work is intended to present an overview of the main results presented in literature on this topic, focusing the attention on the fiber properties in terms of physical and chemical structure. Some aspects related to the traditional uses of coir fibers are also presented. Coir, as an ecofriendly fiber, has tremendous potential in India as well as the rest of the World for mattresses, fabric and other novel applications. Research and development efforts have been underway to find new use areas for coir.