Lightweight biodegradable cotton/albumen board (CAB) for sustainable environment
The depletion of petroleum resources coupled with environmental awareness have spurred effort to produce biodegradable materials from natural resources, which is stable during storage and can be safely disposed after their intended time of use. These materials also can form the basis for sustainab...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/23126/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/23126/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/23126/1/p142.pdf |
| Summary: | The depletion of petroleum resources coupled with environmental awareness have spurred effort to
produce biodegradable materials from natural resources, which is stable during storage and can be safely
disposed after their intended time of use. These materials also can form the basis for sustainable and ecoefficient
products that often results in lightweight structures having high stiffness and tailored properties
for specific applications. Thereby, main objective of this work is to develop biodegradable board
materials from cotton fiber reinforced egg albumen composites. The investigation is about the effect of
fibre content on the mechanical properties, and thermal stability of the CAB. The composites having 0%,toughness was observed with increasing fiber content, with the optimum performance was obtained for
the fiber content of 10 %w/w. The results have shown that addition of the cotton fibre increased the
tensile strength and impact resistance in the range of 0.7 to 10.773 MPa and 1.3 to 19.0 kJ/m2
respectively, than that of the pristine albumen. The thermal stability of the composites was characterized
by thermogravimetry analysis. The morphological study by SEM has revealed that the wettability of
cotton fibre and albumen matrix was good for the fibre loading of 10 % w/w. |
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