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Green Composites Using Naturally Occurring Fibers: A Comprehensive Review

Sustainable Polymer & Energy. 2023, 1(2), 10010; https://doi.org/10.35534/spe.2023.10010
Hans Raj    Swikriti Tripathi    Sudeepta Bauri    Avishek Choudhary    Subham Mandal    Pralay Maiti *   
School of Material Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi 221005, India
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Received: 01 Jun 2023    Accepted: 09 Aug 2023    Published: 15 Aug 2023   

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Abstract

Depletion of non-renewable resources and health hazards of petroleum-based polymers and plastics has enforced the development of eco-friendly materials. The use of conventional plastics has to be minimized and can be replaced with environmentally friendly and sustainable bio-based polymers or biopolymers due to extensive environmental impact. A major share of petroleum-based polymers is used for polymeric composites with research focus on green composites and biocomposites containing renewable/bioderived matrix polymer and fillers from naturally occurring fibers. Biocomposites hold great promise to replace petroleum-based polymer composites owing to their lower cost, non-toxicity, abundance of raw material, renewability, and high specific strength. All these merits of biocomposites have led to an increment in the development of new biocomposites with enhanced properties, wide applicability and ever demanding criteria. The recently published review studies detailed the raw materials used, fabrication techniques, characterization, and applications including biodegradation and rheological studies performed in recent years. This review covers all the important properties of biocomposites along with detailed description of synthesis, properties, characterizations and applicability of these green composites in several areas. The review also focuses on their raw materials, types, recent biocomposites, processing techniques, characterizations, applications, and current challenges with future aspects.

Keywords

Biopolymers; Natural fibers; Biocomposites; Biodegradation; Sustainability

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