Cellulose Fibers: Bio- and Nano-Polymer Composites

Part I Cellulose Fibers and Nanofibers 1. Natural Fibers: Structure, Properties and Applications S. Thomas, S.A. Paul, L.A. Pothan and Deepa B 2. Chemical Functionalization of Cellulose Derived from Non-conventional Sources V.K. Varshney and Sanjay Naithani 3. Production of Flax Fibers for Biocomposites Jonn Foulk, Danny Akin, Roy Dodd and Chad Ulven 4. Cellulosic Bast Fibers, Their Structure and Properties Suitable for Composite Applications Malgorzata Zimniewska, Maria Wladyka Przybylak and Jerzy Mankowski 5. Potential Use of Micro- and Nanofibrillated Cellulose Composites Exemplified by Paper Ramjee Subramanian, Eero Hiltunen and Patrick A.C. Gane Part II Cellulosic Fiber Reinforced Polymer Compo-sites and Nanocomposites 6. Greener Surface Treatments of Natural Fiber Rein-forcements for use in the Production of Composite Mate-rials Koon-Yang Lee, Anne Delille and Alexander Bismarck 7. Nanocellulose BasedComposites Kelley Spence, Youssef Habibi and Alain Dufresne 8. Dimensional Analysis and Surface Morphology as Selective Criteria of Lignocellulosic Fibers as Reinforcement in Polymeric Matrices Kestur G Satyanarayana, Sergio N Monteiro, Felipe Perisse D Lopes, Frederico M Margem, Helvio P G Santafe Jr. and Lucas L da Costa 9. Interfacial Shear Strength in Lignocellulosic Fibers In-corporated Polymeric Composites Sergio Neves Monteiro, Kestur G. Satyanarayana, Frederico Muylaert Margem, Ailton da Silva Ferreira, Denise Cristina Oliveira Nascimeto, Helvio Pessanha Guimares Santaf Jr and Felipe Periss Duarte Lopes 10. The Structure, Morphology and Mechanical Properties of Thermoplastic Composites with Fiber and Energetic Plants Slawomir Borysiak, Dominik Paukszta, Paulina Batkowska and Jerzy Makowski 11. Isora Fiber- A Natural Reinforcement for the Develop-ment of High Performance Engineering Materials Lovely Mathew, M.K. Joshy and Rani Joseph 12. Pineapple Leaf Fibers (PALF) and PALF-Reinforced Po-lymer Composites MohdSapuan Salit, Mohamed Abdul Rahman, Januar Parlaungan Siregar and Mohamad Ridzwan Ishak 13. Utilization of Rice Husks and the Products of its Degra-dation as Fillers of Polymer Composites S. D. Genieva, S. Ch. Turmanova and L. T. Vlaev 14. Polyolefin Based Natural Fiber Composites Santosh D Wanjale and Jyoti P Jog 15. All Cellulosic-based Composites J. P. Borges, M. H. Godinho, J. L. Figueirinhas, M. N. de Pinho and M.N. Belgacem Part III Biodegradable Plastics & Composites from Re-newable Resources 16. Environment Benevolent Biodegradable Polymers: Syn-thesis, Biodegradability and Applications B.S. Kaith, Hemant Mittal, Rajeev Jindal, Mithu Maiti and Susheel Kalia 17. Biocomposites based on Biodegradable Thermoplastic Polyester and Ligno-cellulose Fibers Luc Avrous 18. Man-made Cellulose Short Fiber Reinforced Oil and Bio-based Thermoplastics Johannes Ganster and Hans-Peter Fink 19. Degradation of Cellulose Based Polymer Composites J.K. Pandey, D.R. Saini and S.H.Ahn 20. Biopolymeric Nanocomposites as Environment benign Materials Pratheep Kumar Annamalai and Raj Pal Singh Part IV Applications of Cellulose Fiber Reinforced Po-lymer Composites 21. Cellulose Nanocomposites for High Performance Appli-cations Bibin Mathew Cherian, Alcides Lopes Leao, Sivoney Ferreira de Souza, Sabu Thomas, Laly A Pothan and M Kottaisamy 22. Sisal Fiber Based Polymer Composites and thei