Pineapple Leaf Fiber Polymer Composites as a Promising Tool for Sustainable, Eco-friendly Composite Material: Review

ABSTRACT

Ever increasing demand of petroleum products leads to depletion of resources. In order to substitute, biodegradable, perishable and abundantly available natural products are in trend. Because of high cellulosic content, pineapple leaf fibers exhibit excellent mechanical properties hence are used in automobile industries and building construction purposes. In this review article, the detailed study of pineapple leaf fibers was done in order to demonstrate the possible applications of their developed composites with various different matrix types. The property analysis of pineapple leaf fibers were studied for their mechanical and thermal strength apart from other chemical, physical and morphological properties. The cultivation and origin of pineapple leaf fibers have also been summarized in brief so as to understand its economical value and sustainability. It is aimed to have all research previously done related to the properties, extraction, hybridization, processing techniques of pineapple leaf fibers at one place in summarized form for its better application as a sustainable, eco-friendly and potential composite material.

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摘要

对石油产品的需求不断增加,导致资源枯竭。为了替代,生物可降解、易腐和大量可用的天然产品成为趋势. 由于菠萝叶纤维的纤维素含量高,因此具有优异的机械性能,因此被用于汽车工业和建筑业. 在这篇综述文章中,对菠萝叶纤维进行了详细的研究,以展示其开发的具有不同基体类型的复合材料的可能应用. 研究了菠萝叶纤维的机械强度、热强度以及其他化学、物理和形态特性. 为了了解菠萝叶纤维的经济价值和可持续性,还简要概述了菠萝叶纤维的栽培和起源. 其目的是以总结的形式在一个地方进行与菠萝叶纤维的性质、提取、杂交、加工技术相关的所有研究,以使其作为一种可持续、环保和潜在的复合材料得到更好的应用

KEYWORDS:

• Pineapple leaf fibers
• polymer
• hybridization
• surface treatment
• properties

关键词:

• 菠萝叶纤维
• 聚合物
• 杂交
• 表面处理
• 财产

Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge the help and financial support from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and Ministry of Human Resources Department, Government of India.

Declaration of conflicting interests

The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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Credit author statement

Jyoti Jain: Conceptualization, Visualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing Methodology, Original draft preparation.

Shishir Sinha: Conceptualization, Project administration, Visualization, Supervision, Validation, Review and editing.

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This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.