Creating hierarchical structures in renewable composites by attaching bacterial cellulose onto sisal fibers

Julasak Juntaro, Marion Pommet, Gehard Kalinka, Athanasios Mantalaris, Milo S. P. Shaffer, Alexander Bismarck

Publications: Contribution to journalArticlePeer Reviewed

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3122-3126
Number of pages5
JournalAdvanced Materials
Volume20
Issue number16
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 Aug 2008
Externally publishedYes

Funding

We want to thank Advance Nanotech Inc. for the funds which enabled us to start this project, and the financial support of the Challenging Engineering Programme (EP/E007538/1) of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), which allowed us to continue the project. We are grateful to Martina Bistritz (BAM Berlin) for her help with the pull-out tests and to Michael Q. Tran (PaCE group), who recorded the SEM images. Supporting Information is available online from Wiley InterScience or from the author.

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 205019 Material sciences

Keywords

  • MECHANICAL-PROPERTIES
  • ACETATE BUTYRATE
  • REACTIVE EXTRUSION
  • SURFACE-PROPERTIES
  • AGITATED CULTURE
  • WATER-UPTAKE
  • BEHAVIOR
  • FLAX
  • NANOCOMPOSITES
  • MORPHOLOGY

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