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Not Only Delicious: Papaya Bast Fibres in Biocomposites
BioResources, 2016 Previous studies have shown favourable properties for papaya bast fibres, with a Young's modulus of up to 10 GPa and a tensile strength of up to 100 MPa.
Thea Lautenschläger +4 more
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Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts, 2022 Natural fibres are renewable, inexpensive and biodegradable sources of sustainable materials from plants or animals. Bast fibres, as the notable natural fibres, are gathered from the outer cell layers of the stem of plant.
Ancy S Watson, Suhara Beevy S
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Sustainable electrochemical energy storage devices using natural bast fibres
Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 Libu Manjakkal, Mrsc, Amrita Jain
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Fibers, 2016 In plants there is no universal protocol for RNA extraction, since optimizations are required depending on the species, tissues and developmental stages.
Gea Guerriero +3 more
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Efficacy of Aspergillus fumigatus R6 Pectinase in Enzymatic Retting of Kenaf
BioResources, 2016 Enzyme retting can be a viable alternative to water retting, which is the currently utilised method for extracting fibres from kenaf. The advantages of enzyme retting are its greater environmental friendliness, shorter retting time, and more controllable
Li Yin Wong +3 more
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Influence of accompanying substances of hemp fibres on their electric resistance [PDF]
Hemijska Industrija, 2006 Hemp fibres belong to the group of natural, cellulose bast fibres. These fibres have exceptional properties such as: antimicrobial effect, absence of allergy effect, extraordinary sorption properties, good electro-physical properties (small static ...
Pejić Biljana +4 more
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Pretreatment of jute and banana fibre—its effect on blended yarn and fabric
Journal of Natural Fibers, 2020 Jute, a lignocellulosic bast fibre, is mainly utilized for making packaging materials. Whereas, banana fibres are extracted from the sheath of the banana trunk which is underutilized and used for making ropes for domestic purposes. Jute and banana fibres,
S. N. Chattopadhyay +3 more
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Tensile and flexural properties of epoxy laminates with natural papaya bast fibre cellular layers
Composites Part C: Open Access, 2020 This work focuses on the fabrication and characterisation of epoxy composites reinforced with natural fibre layers extracted from the inner bast (phloem) of the papaya plant (Carica papaya) under tensile and three-point bending loading. The papaya phloem
Gabriela Luiza Cota Coura +5 more
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Mechanical and physical properties of industrial hemp-based insulation materials; pp. 183–192 [PDF]
Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, 2018 In recent years, research in the field of insulation materials in buildings has been focusing increasingly more upon ecological properties of these materials. Hemp is an annual bast fibre plant, which delivers fibres, shives, and seeds.
Heikko Kallakas +4 more
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Fibers, 2022 Due to the ever-growing demand for bast fibres for technical and garment textiles, complementary sources to textile flax, whose cultivation in western Europe cannot really be extended, need to be proposed.
Saif Ullah Khan +4 more
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