PMID- 32823668
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20200928
IS  - 1996-1944 (Print)
IS  - 1996-1944 (Electronic)
IS  - 1996-1944 (Linking)
VI  - 13
IP  - 16
DP  - 2020 Aug 13
TI  - Thermal and Mechanical Characterization of Banana Fiber Reinforced Composites for 
      Its Application in Injection Molding.
LID - 10.3390/ma13163581 [doi]
LID - 3581
AB  - Several natural materials and vegetable waste have relevant mechanical 
      properties, mainly in its fiber format. Particularly, banana fiber (BF) provides 
      a close behavior to the widely spread glass fibers, which places it in an 
      advantageous position for use as a reinforcing material in plastic composites. 
      This work characterizes the behavior of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), 
      high impact polystyrene (HIPS), and high density polyethylene (HDPE) reinforced 
      with short fibers of bananas from the Canary Islands for its application in 
      molding processes. Several thermal analyses (Thermal Gravimetric Analysis (TGA), 
      Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), and Melt Flow Index (MFI)) and 
      mechanical tests (tensile, flexural, impact, and Dynamic Mechanical Analysis 
      (DMA)) were carried out in composites with different percentages of banana fiber. 
      The thermal results show that the use of banana fiber is viable as a 
      reinforcement in composites for injection molding processes and the mechanical 
      tests indicate an increase in stiffness and an improvement in maximum flexural 
      stress by increasing the fiber content in composites, so the banana fiber turns 
      out to be a natural alternative for the reinforcement of injected plastic 
      components.
FAU - Kusic, Dragan
AU  - Kusic D
AD  - TECOS Slovenian Tool and Die Development Centre, Kidriceva 25, 3000 Celje, 
      Slovenia.
FAU - Bozic, Uros
AU  - Bozic U
AD  - Ambi-Metalplast d.o.o, Smolenja vas 11D, 8000 Novo Mesto, Slovenia.
FAU - Monzon, Mario
AU  - Monzon M
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2736-7905
AD  - Mechanical Engineering Department, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 
      Edificio de Ingenierias, Campus de Tafira Baja, 35017 Las Palmas, Spain.
FAU - Paz, Ruben
AU  - Paz R
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-1223-7067
AD  - Mechanical Engineering Department, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 
      Edificio de Ingenierias, Campus de Tafira Baja, 35017 Las Palmas, Spain.
FAU - Bordon, Pablo
AU  - Bordon P
AD  - Mechanical Engineering Department, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 
      Edificio de Ingenierias, Campus de Tafira Baja, 35017 Las Palmas, Spain.
LA  - eng
GR  - LIFE15 ENV/ES/000157/European Commission/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20200813
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Materials (Basel)
JT  - Materials (Basel, Switzerland)
JID - 101555929
PMC - PMC7475954
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - banana fiber
OT  - extrusion and injection molding techniques
OT  - fiber reinforcements
OT  - natural fiber composites
OT  - short fiber thermoplastics
OT  - thermoplastics matrix
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2020/08/23 06:00
MHDA- 2020/08/23 06:01
PMCR- 2020/08/13
CRDT- 2020/08/23 06:00
PHST- 2020/07/23 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/08/07 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2020/08/10 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/08/23 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2020/08/23 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2020/08/23 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2020/08/13 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - ma13163581 [pii]
AID - materials-13-03581 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/ma13163581 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Materials (Basel). 2020 Aug 13;13(16):3581. doi: 10.3390/ma13163581.