Ke Shi1,2, Luyang Wang1,2, Ruige Qi1,2, Chunxia He1,2,*
Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.10, No.5, pp. 1257-1268, 2022, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2022.017891
- 22 December 2021
Abstract This work was aim to prepare a packing material from natural resources to reduce the environment pollution caused by plastics. Four bio-adhesives (guar gum, sodium alginate, agar and chitosan) were combined with lotus leaf fibers to prepare degradable composites, respectively. The mechanical properties, moisture absorption profiles and the thermal conductivity of the composites were studied and the cross section morphology and the thermal properties of the composites were analyzed. The Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) results showed that the polar groups such as –OH and –COO– in bio-adhesives can form hydrogen bond with –OH in lotus leaf More >