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Fibers, Volume 5, Issue 3

September 2017 - 12 articles

Cover Story: The self-assembly of bacterial cellulose (BC) nanofibers onto the surface of sisal fibers—when placed in the culture medium, during the fermentation process—was investigated. Freely moving bacteria are able to self-assemble around the fibers to form a BC–sisal hybrid structure. Increased surface roughness, BC–sisal fiber hydrogen bonds and embedding of BC nanofibers in the resin result in a strong fiber–resin interfacial interaction. This led to higher tensile properties of the BC–soy protein composites. Such hybrid structures can be obtained using any other fibers or fibrils. View this paper

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Granulated Silica Method for the Fiber Preform Production

Sönke Pilz,
Hossein Najafi,
Manuel Ryser and
Valerio Romano

Fibers2017, 5(3), 24;https://doi.org/10.3390/fib5030024

11 July 2017

During the past few years, we have studied the granulated silica method as a versatile and cost effective way of fiber preform production and the sol-gel method. Until now, we have used the sol-gel technology together with an iterative re-melting and...

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Flexural Behavior of Epoxy under Accelerated Hygrothermal Conditions

Abulgasem Mohamed Elarbi and
Hwai-Chung Wu

Fibers2017, 5(3), 25;https://doi.org/10.3390/fib5030025

7 July 2017

Fibers by themselves have a limited use in engineering applications since they cannot transmit loads from one to another; therefore, the matrix material plays an important role in the overall function of the fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites....

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