ABSTRACT
Biobers are hastily emerging as a potential reinforcement in green composite materials because of their distinct advantages such as their renewable nature, biodegradability, cost-effectiveness, nonabrasiveness, high toughness, low density, enhanced energy recovery, and recyclability (Hagstrand and Oksman 2001; Kabir et al. 2012a,b; Ouajai and Shanks 2009a,b; Singha and Thakur 2009a,b). The substitution of conventional materials with biober-based materials is gaining immense attractiveness as a result of growing environmental awareness throughout the world (Averous 2004; Bledzki and Gassan 1999; Bledzki et al. 1996, 1998, 2010; Liu et al. 2011; Poletto et al. 2012). The biober-based green composite materials are up and coming as one of the most realistic alternatives to the existing pure synthetic composites prepared using established reinforcement such as carbon bers, glass bers, talc, and so on
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