Mechanical and thermo-mechanical behaviors of sizing-treated corn fiber/polylactide composites

• DOI: 10.1016/j.polymertesting.2014.07.014
• Publication Date: 2014-08-01T03:06:07Z
• Authors: Honglin Luo; Guangyao Xiong; Chunying Ma; Peng Chang; Fanglian Yao; Yong Zhu; Chuanyin Zhang; Yizao Wan
• Keywords: Molding (decorative); Natural fiber

Sizing treatment of glass fiber has been shown to effectively improve fiber-matrix interfacial adhesion whereas few studies have conducted on the sizing natural fibers. In this work, corn was subjected alkali and treatments. The treated fibers were used prepare reinforced polylactide (CF/PLA) composites through mechanical mixing injection molding. Fiber surface, tensile fracture properties thermo-mechanical behavior various CF/PLA characterized. SEM observation indicates better between sizing-treated PLA, as compared untreated alkali-treated fibers, due reactions at interfaces. Sizing-treated demonstrate improved PLA containing It is demonstrated that could be a potential promising method produce high performance biocomposites.