Wheat straw pre-treatments using eco-friendly strategies for enhancing the tensile properties of bio-based polylactic acid composites

Mehdi Chougan; Seyed Hamidreza Ghaffar; Mazen J. Al-Kheetan; Mantas Gecevicius

doi:10.1016/j.indcrop.2020.112836

Wheat straw pre-treatments using eco-friendly strategies for enhancing the tensile properties of bio-based polylactic acid composites

Mehdi Chougan, Seyed Hamidreza Ghaffar^*, Mazen J. Al-Kheetan, Mantas Gecevicius

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Abstract

Individual and hybrid pre-treatments, including hot water, steam and microwave were used on wheat straw to mitigate the surface quality deficiencies for an intimate interfacial bond between substrate and Polylactic Acid matrix. Microstructural analysis showed the expansion of cells due to the pre-treatments which in turn promotes mechanical entanglement between wheat straw and PLA, thus, improving the tensile properties of bio-based composites. The tensile strength, elongation at break, elastic modulus, and toughness increased by 166 %, 18 %, 68 %, and 285 %, respectively, for hot water followed by steam pre-treated wheat straw bio-based composites compared to untreated.

Original language	English
Article number	112836
Journal	Industrial Crops and Products
Volume	155
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop.2020.112836
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2020

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This work was funded as part of the HPCSB project, which has received funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council with the following reference: EP/S026487/1.

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Keywords

Bio-based composites
Polylactic acid
Pre-treatment
Tensile performance
Wheat straw

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Agronomy and Crop Science

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