Assessing extraction methods and mechanical and physicochemical properties of Algerian yucca fibers for sustainable composite reinforcement

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Kacem, MA, Guebailia, M, Sabba, N, Abdi, S and Bodaghi, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0707-944X, 2024. Assessing extraction methods and mechanical and physicochemical properties of Algerian yucca fibers for sustainable composite reinforcement. Macromolecular Materials and Engineering: 2400082. ISSN 1438-7492

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/mame.202400082

Abstract

The utilization of biofiber in recent years has significantly increased due to its advantages like being environmentally friendly, availability, and low costs. This paper investigates the physicochemical, mechanical, and morphological properties of the yucca fiber extracted by three methods such as water-retting, traditional, and chemical methods. These analyses are designed to evaluate the extraction methodology and the hypothesis of the influence of harvesting location and growth conditions of the fiber. Various technologies are used, such as SEM, FTIR, XRD, and tensile tests. The fiber extracted by water retting is the strongest in the mechanical analysis with a strength of 690.48 MPa, followed by fiber extracted with the traditional method with 685.48 MPa, also 673.06, 657.94, 373.68 MPa for the fiber extracted by the chemical method using 3%, 5%, 10%NaOH respectively. The fiber obtained by the water retting method also has a higher chemical composition with 80.25% cellulose, 10.45% lignin, and 13.75% hemicellulose. The morphological characteristics are examined using Scanning Electron Microscopy. The crystallinity index ranged from 61.75% to 70.77%, and crystallite size from 1.73 to 2.04 nm is calculated from the XRD analysis. All these results confirm that yucca fiber can be a good sustainable choice for composite reinforcement.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Macromolecular Materials and Engineering
Creators:	Kacem, M.A., Guebailia, M., Sabba, N., Abdi, S. and Bodaghi, M.
Publisher:	Wiley
Date:	20 August 2024
ISSN:	1438-7492
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1002/mame.202400082 DOI 2223312 Other
Rights:	© 2024 the author(s). Macromolecular Materials and Engineering published by Wiley-VCH GmbH. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Science and Technology
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	23 Sep 2024 15:30
Last Modified:	23 Sep 2024 15:30
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/52284