Interface Engineering of Natural Fibre Composites for Maximum Performance

Index

A

acetic anhydride, 127

acetylation, 127, 196, 244

acid hydrolysis, 85, 88

acid number, 52–5

transcrystalline zone in PP matrix, 54

acoustic emission spectrometry, 258–61

fibre breakage and AE events one-to-one correspondence, 261

acrylate derivatives, 132–3

acrylic acid, 50, 51, 61–2

adhesion, 47–8

mechanisms, 49–50

AFM See atomic force microscopy

Agave americana waste, 175

Agave fourcroydes, 223, 237

AKD See alkyl ketene dimer

alkaline treatment, 124–6

alkenyl succinic anhydride, 13, 94, 127

alkyl ketene dimer, 9, 13

ANDSCAN, 372

anhydrides, 126–7

Anti-Stokes–Raman scattering, 380

Antoine’s equation, 279

APTS See γ-aminopropyltriethoxysilane

Arrhenius equation, 308

ASA See alkenyl succinic anhydride

aspect ratio, 90

ASRM D2290,