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Advances in Natural Fibre Composites pp 175–194Cite as

Investigation of Mechanical and Thermomechanical Properties of Nanocellulose Coated Jute/Green Epoxy Composites

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The present study was aimed to investigate the effect of nanocellulose coating on the mechanical and thermomechanical properties of jute/green epoxy composites. Cellulose was purified from waste jute fibers, converted to nanocellulose by acid hydrolysis and subsequently 3, 5 and 10 wt% of nanocellulose suspensions were coated over woven jute reinforcement. The composites were prepared by hand layup and compression molding technique. The surface topologies of treated jute fibers, jute cellulose nanofibrils (CNF), nanocellulose coated jute fabrics and fractured surfaces of composites were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The prepared composites were evaluated for tensile, flexural, fatigue, fracture toughness and dynamic mechanical properties. The results revealed the improvement in tensile modulus, flexural strength, flexural modulus, fatigue life and fracture toughness of composites with the increase in concentration of nanocellulose coating over jute reinforcement except the decrease in tensile strength. Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) results also showed the increase in storage modulus and reduction in tangent delta peak height of nanocellulose coated jute composites.

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The authors acknowledge the financial support from Technical University of Liberec under student grant scheme (SGS-21158) to carry out this work.

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  1. Department of Materials Engineering, Faculty of Textile Engineering, Technical University of Liberec, Studentská 1402/2, 461 17, Liberec, Czech Republic

    Abdul Jabbar, Jiří Militký, Azam Ali & Muhammad Usman Javed

  2. Faculty of Engineering and Technology, National Textile University, Faisalabad, 37610, Pakistan

    Abdul Jabbar & Muhammad Usman Javed

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Jabbar, A., Militký, J., Ali, A., Javed, M.U. (2018). Investigation of Mechanical and Thermomechanical Properties of Nanocellulose Coated Jute/Green Epoxy Composites. In: Fangueiro, R., Rana, S. (eds) Advances in Natural Fibre Composites. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64641-1_16

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