Pravin Jagdale, Aamer Khan, Massimo Rovere and Alberto Tagliaferro
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Trends in Green chem
Because of the Kyoto protocols on CO2 emission reduction, the transition towards a bio-based economy and sustainable developments offers high perspectives for natural fibers markets. Several kinds of natural fibers exist around the world: bamboo in Japan, coconut in equatorial countries. They are supposed to be one of the strongest natural fibers available in nature. Biochar based carbon and graphene nanostructures are very perspective raw materials for nano profiling and nanomodification of composites for the promising applications in material industry. Considering continues, growing global carbon fibers (CFs) demand various applications, investigation of the possibility to use the natural fibers to carbon fibers studied. Pyrolysis method was adopted for conversion. The aim of the study was to use affordable, easily available, environment-friendly material to produce carbon fibers. These carbon fibers may become, in perspective, substitutes for traditional polymeric precursors for CFs. Carbonized Fibers were studied by FESEM, Raman and TGA. Various applications like the mechanical strength of composite were studied further. Results show that biochar based carbon fibers prove themselves as potential fillers in composite.
Email: pravin.jagdale@polito.it
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