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Strength Characteristics of Electrospun Coconut Fibre Reinforced Polylactic Acid: Experimental and Representative Volume Element (RVE) Prediction

Environmental conservation and waste control have informed and encouraged the use of biodegradable polymeric materials over synthetic non-biodegradable materials. It has been recognized that nano-sized biodegradable materials possess relatively good properties as compared to conventional micron-size...

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Autores principales: Ogunbiyi, Olugbenga, Gbenebor, Oluwashina, Salifu, Smith, Olaleye, Samuel, Jamiru, Tamba, Sadiku, Rotimi, Adeosun, Samson
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9570790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36234015
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma15196676
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author Ogunbiyi, Olugbenga
Gbenebor, Oluwashina
Salifu, Smith
Olaleye, Samuel
Jamiru, Tamba
Sadiku, Rotimi
Adeosun, Samson
author_facet Ogunbiyi, Olugbenga
Gbenebor, Oluwashina
Salifu, Smith
Olaleye, Samuel
Jamiru, Tamba
Sadiku, Rotimi
Adeosun, Samson
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description Environmental conservation and waste control have informed and encouraged the use of biodegradable polymeric materials over synthetic non-biodegradable materials. It has been recognized that nano-sized biodegradable materials possess relatively good properties as compared to conventional micron-sized materials. However, the strength characteristics of these materials are inferior to fossil-based non-biodegradable materials. In this study, biodegradable polylactide (PLA), reinforced with treated coconut husk particulates (CCP) for improved mechanical properties, was fabricated using an electrospinning process and representative volume element (RVE) technique, and some of the obtained mechanical properties were compared. It was observed that the electrospun CCP-PLA nanofibre composites show improved mechanical properties, and some of these mechanical properties using both techniques compared favourably well. The electrospun fibres demonstrate superior properties, mostly at 4 wt.% reinforcement. Thus, achieving good mechanical properties utilising agro waste as reinforcement in PLA to manufacture nanocomposite materials by electrospinning method is feasible and provides insight into the development of biodegradable nanocomposite materials.
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spelling pubmed-95707902022-10-17 Strength Characteristics of Electrospun Coconut Fibre Reinforced Polylactic Acid: Experimental and Representative Volume Element (RVE) Prediction Ogunbiyi, Olugbenga Gbenebor, Oluwashina Salifu, Smith Olaleye, Samuel Jamiru, Tamba Sadiku, Rotimi Adeosun, Samson Materials (Basel) Article Environmental conservation and waste control have informed and encouraged the use of biodegradable polymeric materials over synthetic non-biodegradable materials. It has been recognized that nano-sized biodegradable materials possess relatively good properties as compared to conventional micron-sized materials. However, the strength characteristics of these materials are inferior to fossil-based non-biodegradable materials. In this study, biodegradable polylactide (PLA), reinforced with treated coconut husk particulates (CCP) for improved mechanical properties, was fabricated using an electrospinning process and representative volume element (RVE) technique, and some of the obtained mechanical properties were compared. It was observed that the electrospun CCP-PLA nanofibre composites show improved mechanical properties, and some of these mechanical properties using both techniques compared favourably well. The electrospun fibres demonstrate superior properties, mostly at 4 wt.% reinforcement. Thus, achieving good mechanical properties utilising agro waste as reinforcement in PLA to manufacture nanocomposite materials by electrospinning method is feasible and provides insight into the development of biodegradable nanocomposite materials. MDPI 2022-09-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9570790/ /pubmed/36234015 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma15196676 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Ogunbiyi, Olugbenga
Gbenebor, Oluwashina
Salifu, Smith
Olaleye, Samuel
Jamiru, Tamba
Sadiku, Rotimi
Adeosun, Samson
Strength Characteristics of Electrospun Coconut Fibre Reinforced Polylactic Acid: Experimental and Representative Volume Element (RVE) Prediction
title Strength Characteristics of Electrospun Coconut Fibre Reinforced Polylactic Acid: Experimental and Representative Volume Element (RVE) Prediction
title_full Strength Characteristics of Electrospun Coconut Fibre Reinforced Polylactic Acid: Experimental and Representative Volume Element (RVE) Prediction
title_fullStr Strength Characteristics of Electrospun Coconut Fibre Reinforced Polylactic Acid: Experimental and Representative Volume Element (RVE) Prediction
title_full_unstemmed Strength Characteristics of Electrospun Coconut Fibre Reinforced Polylactic Acid: Experimental and Representative Volume Element (RVE) Prediction
title_short Strength Characteristics of Electrospun Coconut Fibre Reinforced Polylactic Acid: Experimental and Representative Volume Element (RVE) Prediction
title_sort strength characteristics of electrospun coconut fibre reinforced polylactic acid: experimental and representative volume element (rve) prediction
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9570790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36234015
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma15196676
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