Chemical Treatment on Rattan Fibers: Durability, Mechanical, Thermal, and Morphological Properties

ABSTRACT

The current research endeavor explores the durability, thermal, mechanical and morphological properties of untreated and various chemically treated rattan fibers to find its potential as reinforcement in fabrication of advanced composite materials. The extracted rattan fibers were gone through various chemical treatments (i.e alkali and acrylic acid). The most important limitation of plant fibers use is low material durability. So the durability of treated rattan fibers has been investigated in three different mediums. Here the results of experiments on rattan fibers were presented. From the results, it is observed that acrylic acid–treated fibers are found to retain higher percentages of their initial strength than all other fibers, after the specified period of exposure in the various mediums. Further, their characterization was done using Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) studies. Hence, acrylic acid–treated fibers can be a good potential candidate for reinforcement in polymeric matrices for the fabrication of advanced composite for different structural applications.

摘要

目前的研究努力，探索未经处理和各种化学处理的藤纤维的耐久性、热性、机械性和形态特性，以发现其作为先进复合材料制造增强的潜力. 提取的藤纤维经过各种化学处理（即碱和丙烯酸）. 植物纤维使用中最重要的限制是材料耐久性低. 因此，在三种不同的介质中，对处理过的藤纤维的耐久性进行了研究. 这里介绍了藤纤维的实验结果. 从结果中可以看出，在各种介质中指定暴露期后，丙烯酸处理纤维的初始强度保持的百分比高于所有其他纤维. 此外，他们采用傅立叶变换红外（FTIR）光谱学、X射线衍射（XRD）和扫描电子显微镜（SEM）研究进行表征. 因此，丙烯酸处理纤维在聚合物基质中是很好的增强潜力，用于制造适用于不同结构应用的高级复合材料.

KEYWORDS:

• Rattan fibers
• chemical treatment
• mechanical properties
• thermal properties
• x-ray diffraction analysis
• durability

关键词:

• 藤纤维
• 化学处理
• 机械性能
• 热性能
• X射线衍射分析
• 耐久性