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JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE
Volume 124, Issue 3, Pages 2494-2500Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/app.35264
Keywords
hemp fiber; recycled polypropylene; hybrid composites; mechanical properties
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- Natural Sciences and Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
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Hemp fibers and particles, with different sizes and contents, were used to make hybrid composites based on recycled polypropylene (PP). In particular, the effect of maleated polypropylene (MAPP) addition on the morphology and mechanical properties is reported. The results show that better adhesion is obtained with MAPP addition. In general, fiber content and size had a substantial effect on the tensile, flexural, torsion, and impact properties of the resulting composites. Although, adding MAPP to the samples improved the impact strength of the composites, the values were always lower than neat PP. (C) 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci, 2012
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