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Properties of bamboo fibres produced using an environmentally benign method

journal contribution
posted on 2014-01-01, 00:00 authored by Tarannum Afrin, Rupinder Kanwar, Xungai Wang, T Tsuzuki
The properties of bamboo fibres extracted from raw bamboo plants in an environmentally benign manner were investigated. To reduce environmental impacts of the manufacturing process, microwave, ultra-sonication and enzyme were used to extract the bamboo fibres, avoiding the use of hazardous chemicals. The new method enabled the extraction of single fibres while retaining a certain quantity of lignin in fibre. The retained lignin allowed the fibre to possess UV absorption and antibacterial properties, which will be advantageous for many textile applications.

History

Journal

Journal of the textile institute

Volume

105

Issue

12

Pagination

1293 - 1299

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Location

Abingdon, England

ISSN

0040-5000

eISSN

1754-2340

Language

eng

Publication classification

C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2014, The Textile Institute