Coir Fiber and its Composites

Coir Fiber and its Composites: Processing, Properties and Applications presents unified knowledge on eco-friendly coir fiber composites, covering their characterization, design, manufacture and applications. The properties of coir fiber and its extraction and processing are explored in-depth, thus helping researchers, scientists and those working in various industries understand the need of coir fiber composites in the development of green, biodegradable and sustainable components that have potential in real-world applications. The book elaborates on the basic characterization of coir fibers and its composite properties such, including its physical, mechanical, morphological, thermal, structural and chemical properties.

Users will find sound knowledge on coir fiber and its composites, including modern design and manufacture engineering with numerous example illustrations, methods and results that will be valuable for graduate students, researchers and industrialists working in the development of plant-based composite materials.

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Prof. Dr. Mohammad Jawaid is currently working as Distinguished Professor at Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department, United Arab Emirates University, UAE. He has more than 25 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, nanocomposites and nanocellulose fibers, and polymer blends. So far, he has published 100 books, more than 100 book chapters, more than 500 peer-reviewed international journal papers, and several published review papers under top 25 hot articles in science direct during 20132020. He also obtained 6 Patents and 6 Copyrights/Industrial design. H-index and citation in Scopus are 101 and 43525 and in Google scholar, and H-index and citation are 120 and 58132. 40 Ph.D. and 17 Master's students graduated under his supervision in 20142024 in the fields of hybrid composites, green composites, nanocomposites, natural fiber-reinforced composites, nanocellulose, etc. He secured various research grants at university, national, and international levels on polymer composites of around USD 3 Million. He also delivered plenary and invited talks in international conferences related to composites in India, Turkey, Malaysia, Thailand, United Kingdom, France, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, China, Germany, Indonesia, Spain, UAE, Portagal, etc. Besides that, he is also a member of technical committees of several national and international conferences on composites and material science. He is founding Series Editor of Springer Three Book Series. He worked as guest editor of special issues of Several Peer reviewed Journals. Besides that, he is also reviewer of several high-impact international peer-reviewed journals of Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Saga, ACS, RSC, Frontiers, etc. Dr. Mohammad Jawaid also received Several Award at National and International Level. He is also Winner of Newton-Ungku Omar Coordination Fund: UK-Malaysia Research and Innovation Bridges Competition 2015. He is also Professional membership of ACS, SPE, APA, MySET, etc. He is Fellow and Chartered Scientist of The Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (IOM3), UK. He is also Clarivate 1% Highly cited Researcher-2023.

Inhalt

1. Coir Fibre: Geographic distribution, and cultivation
   
   2. Extraction of Coir Fibres by Different Methods
   3. Anatomical Structure of Coir Fibres
   4. Effect of extraction on the mechanical, physical, and biological properties of Coir Fibre
   5. Modification/Treatment of Coir fibres by various techniques-Alkali/Silane/Grafting etc. for fabrication of composites
   6. Physical, Morphological, Structural, Thermal, morphological, and tensile Properties of Coir fibres
   7. Coir Fiber Architectures for Composites
   8. Matrix materials for Coir Fibre Composites
   9. Manufacturing and Design of Coir Fibre Composites
   10. Coir fibre Composite: Mechanical and Morphological properties
   11. Design and Modelling of Coir Fibre Composites
   12. Thermal properties of Coir Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composites
   13. Accelerated Weathering and Biodegradable properties of Coir based composites
   14. Cellulose nanostructures extracted from Coir fibres
   15. Physicochemical and Morphological Properties of Microcrystalline cellulose and Nanocellulose Extracted from Coir Fibres and its composites
   16. Coir fibre-based Nanocomposites
   17. Coir fibre-based composites for Various Applications-Automotive, Construction, Wind Turbine blade, and Aerospace Applications
   18. life-cycle assessment of coir fibres and their composites