Vegetable Fiber Composites and Their Technological Applications

ISBN-13: 9789811618536 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 486 str.

Mohammad Jawaid; Anish Khan

Spis treści

Vegetable fiber cement composite: application and durability.- Properties of basalt fibers laminate composite.- Starch vegetable fibre composite for protection of food products.- Juncus acutus fibers and clay sand composite: elaboration characterization and applications.- Composites strengthened with Guadua fibers: Physical and mechanical residences.- Development of vegetable fiber–mortar composites of improved durability.- Preparation and characterization of poly(lactic acid) plasticized with vegetable oils and strengthened with sisal fibers.- The Utilization of Vegetable Fibers in Cementitious Materials.- Cellulose fiber reinforced cement-primarily based composites.- Guaruman fiber composite any other feasible reinforcement and future.- Vegetable fiber strengthened hybrid composites, chemical treatments, and application regions.- Synthesize and Characterization of Treated Banana Fiber Composites.- Properties of an Amazonian vegetable fiber composite as a capability reinforcing material.- Opportunities With Renewable vegetable Fiber Composites to Reduce Eco-Impact of Nonrenewable materials.- Review on mechanical houses of vegetable fiber composites.- Sustainable use of vegetable fibers and debris in civil construction.- Reinforcement of denture base resin with quick vegetable fiber.- Evaluation of mechanical, bodily and thermal performance of cement-based totally tiles strengthened with vegetable fibers. 

O autorze

Dr. Mohammad Jawaid is currently working as Senior Fellow (Professor) at Biocomposite Technology Laboratory, Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products (INTROP), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, and also has been Visiting Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, since June 2013. He has more than 20 years of experience in teaching, research, and industries. His area of research interests includes hybrid composites, lignocellulosic-reinforced/filled polymer composites, advance materials: graphene/nanoclay/fire retardant, modification and treatment of lignocellulosic fibers and solid wood, biopolymers and biopolymers for packaging applications, nano-composites and nanocellulose fibers, and polymer blends. So far, he has published 40 books, 65 book chapters, more than 350 peer-reviewed international journal papers, and several published review papers under top 25 hot articles in science direct during 2013–2019. He also obtained 2 Patents and 6 Copyrights. H-index and citation in Scopus are 52 and 12521, and in Google Scholar, H-index and citation are 61 and 17402. He is founding Series Editor of Composite Science and Technology Book Series from Springer Nature, also Series Editor of Springer Proceedings in Materials, Springer Nature, and also International Advisory Board Member of Springer Series on Polymer and Composite Materials. He worked as Guest Editor of special issues of SN Applied Science, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Current Organic Synthesis, and Current Analytical Chemistry, International Journal of Polymer Science, IOP Conference Proceeding. He is also Editorial Board Member of Journal of Polymers and The Environment, Journal of Plastics Technology, Applied Science and Engineering Progress Journal, Journal of Asian Science, Technology and Innovation, and the Recent Innovations in Chemical Engineering. Besides that he is also Reviewer of several high-impact international peer-reviewed journals of Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Saga, ACS, RSC, Frontiers, etc. Presently, he is supervising 12 Ph.D. students (5 Ph.D. as Chairman and 7 Ph.D. as Member) and 6 master’s students (1 master as Chairman and 5 master as Member) in the fields of hybrid composites, green composites, nano-composites, natural fiber-reinforced composites, nanocellulose, etc. Twenty-six Ph.D. and 13 master’s students graduated under his supervision in 2014–2020. He has several research grants at university, national, and international levels on polymer composites of around 3 million Malaysian ringgits (USD 700,000). He also delivered plenary and invited talks in international conferences related to composites in India, Turkey, Malaysia, Thailand, the UK, France, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and China. Besides that, he is also member of technical committees of several national and international conferences on composites and material science. Recently, Dr. Mohammad Jawaid received Excellent Academic Award in the Category of International Grant-Universiti Putra Malaysia-2018 and also Excellent Academic Staff Award in Industry High-Impact Network (ICAN 2019) Award. Beside that he received Gold Medal-Community and Industry Network (JINM Showcase) at Universiti Putra Malaysia. He also received Publons Peer Review Awards, 2017 and 2018 (Materials Science) and Certified Sentinel of science Award Recipient, 2016 (Materials Science) and 2019 (Materials Science and Crossfield). He is also Winner of Newton-Ungku Omar Coordination Fund: UK-Malaysia Research and Innovation Bridges Competition 2015. Recently, he got Fellow and Chartered Scientist from the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining(IOM), UK. He is also Life Member of Asian Polymer Association and Malaysian Society for Engineering and Technology. He has professional membership of American Chemical Society (ACS) and Society for Polymers Engineers (SPE), USA.

Dr. Anish Khan is currently working as Assistant Professor in Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research (CEAMR), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia completed Ph.D. from Aligarh Muslim University, India, in 2010, and postdoctoral from School of Chemical Sciences, University Sains Malaysia (USM), on the topic of electroanalytical chemistry in 2010. Working in the field of synthetic polymers composite, organic–inorganic electrically conducting nano-composites, cation exchanger, natural fiber composite, metal organic framework’s composite, and their properties and applications as sensor. He has published More than 200 research articles, 70 chapters, and 35 books in referred international Publishers and more than 20 international conferences/workshops. He is Member of American Nano Society, Field of specialization in polymer nano-composite/cation exchanger/chemical sensor/microbiosensor/nanotechnology, application of nano materials in electroanalytical chemistry, material chemistry, ion exchange chromatography, and electroanalytical chemistry, dealing with the synthesis, characterization (using different analytical techniques),derivatization of inorganic ion exchanger by the incorporation of electrically conducting polymers, and preparation and characterization of hybrid nano-composite materials and their applications, polymeric inorganic cation—exchange materials, electrically conducting polymeric, materials, composite material use as sensors, green chemistry by remediation of pollution, heavy metal ion-selective membrane electrode, and biosensor on neurotransmitter.

Blurb

This book explores vegetable fiber composite as an eco-friendly, biodegradable, and sustainable material that has many potential industrial applications. The use of vegetable fiber composite supports the sustainable development goals (SDGs) to utilize more sustainable and greener composite materials, which are also easy to handle and locally easily available with economical production costs. This book presents various types of vegetable fiber composite and its processing methods and treatments to obtain desirable properties for certain applications. The book caters to researchers and students who are working in the field of bio-composites and green materials.