TY - JOUR
T1 - A New Study on Characterization and Properties of Natural Fibers Obtained from Olive Tree (Olea europaea L.) Residues
AU - Alshammari, Basheer A.
AU - Alotaibi, Majed D.
AU - Alothman, Othman Y.
AU - Sanjay, M. R.
AU - Kian, Lau Kia
AU - Almutairi, Zeyad
AU - Jawaid, Mohammad
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2019/11/1
Y1 - 2019/11/1
N2 - Nowadays, fibers extracted from natural resources have a wide range of promising applications, including the prospect to be used as reinforcing material in polymer composites. In this context, the purpose of this study has been to extract fibers from different parts of the olive tree (leaves, small and large branches) and characterize their physico-chemical, thermal, and morphological properties using advanced equipment. Olive leaf (OL) fiber showed asymmetrical size distribution, as compared to those extracted from small olive branches (OSS), and big olive branches (OBS). The OL fiber exhibited 64.1% crystallinity, which is lower than that of the OSS fiber—with 65.4% crystallinity. Thermal analysis revealed that the OBS and OSS fibers are more thermally stable, compared to the OL fibers. The obtained results concluded that olive tree fibers can be suitable for being used as reinforcement material to develop polymer composites for various lightweight applications.
AB - Nowadays, fibers extracted from natural resources have a wide range of promising applications, including the prospect to be used as reinforcing material in polymer composites. In this context, the purpose of this study has been to extract fibers from different parts of the olive tree (leaves, small and large branches) and characterize their physico-chemical, thermal, and morphological properties using advanced equipment. Olive leaf (OL) fiber showed asymmetrical size distribution, as compared to those extracted from small olive branches (OSS), and big olive branches (OBS). The OL fiber exhibited 64.1% crystallinity, which is lower than that of the OSS fiber—with 65.4% crystallinity. Thermal analysis revealed that the OBS and OSS fibers are more thermally stable, compared to the OL fibers. The obtained results concluded that olive tree fibers can be suitable for being used as reinforcement material to develop polymer composites for various lightweight applications.
KW - Chemical composition
KW - Morphological properties
KW - Olive tree
KW - Structural properties
KW - Thermal properties
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U2 - 10.1007/s10924-019-01526-8
DO - 10.1007/s10924-019-01526-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85069433062
SN - 1566-2543
VL - 27
SP - 2334
EP - 2340
JO - Journal of Polymers and the Environment
JF - Journal of Polymers and the Environment
IS - 11
ER -