Current Progress in Biopolymer-Based Bionanocomposites and Hybrid Materials

R A Ilyas; S M Sapuan; Emin Bayraktar

doi:10.3390/polym14173479

Current Progress in Biopolymer-Based Bionanocomposites and Hybrid Materials

Polymers (Basel). 2022 Aug 25;14(17):3479. doi: 10.3390/polym14173479.

Authors

R A Ilyas^{1

2

3}, S M Sapuan⁴, Emin Bayraktar⁵

Affiliations

¹ School of Chemical and Energy Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Johor Bahru 81310, Malaysia.
² Centre for Advanced Composite Materials, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Johor Bahru 81310, Malaysia.
³ Institute of Tropical Forest and Forest Products (INTROP), Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Malaysia.
⁴ Advanced Engineering Materials and Composites, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Malaysia.
⁵ School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, ISAE-SUPMECA Institute of Mechanics of Paris, 93400 Saint-Ouen, France.

Abstract

Current Progress in Biopolymer-Based Bionanocomposites and Hybrid Materials is a newly opened Special Issue of Polymers, which aims to publish original and review papers on the new scientific and applied research and make boundless contributions to the findings and understanding of the reinforcing effects of various synthetic and natural fibres on the performance of biopolymer composites [...].

Publication types

Editorial

Grants and funding

The authors would like express gratitude for the financial support received from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia for the project “The impact of Malaysian bamboos’ chemical and fibre characteristics on their pulp and paper properties”, grant number PY/2022/02318— Q.J130000.3851.21H99. The research has been carried out under the programme, Research Excellence Consortium (JPT (BPKI) 1000/016/018/25 (57)), provided by the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia (MOHE).