Physical and mechanical behaviors of pineapple leaf fibre reinforced thermoplastics corn starch bio polymer composites

• Main Author: Zakaria, Nazri Huzaimi
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English; English; English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: TA401-492 Materials of engineering and construction. Mechanics of materials; TP1080-1185 Polymers and polymer manufacture
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Recently, the desire to develop environmentally friendly products is growing due to the accumulating of non-biodegradable waste, mainly the disposable product. Starch is one of the potential materials due to the easy availability, low cost, renewability and biodegradability. However, the natural...