Burden turns into benefit: Potentiality of macadamia nutshells for engineered polymer composites
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Article Title | Burden turns into benefit: Potentiality of macadamia nutshells for engineered polymer composites |
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Article Category | Article |
Authors | Islam, Md Mainul, Khan, Md Sefat and Epaarachchi, Jayantha |
Journal Title | International Journal of Management and Applied Science (IJMAS) |
Journal Citation | 10 (1), pp. 169-179 |
Number of Pages | 11 |
Year | 2024 |
Publisher | Institute of Research and Journals |
Place of Publication | India |
ISSN | 2394-7926 |
Web Address (URL) | https://iraj.doionline.org/dx/IJMAS-IRAJ-DOIONLINE-20522 |
Abstract | Global production of macadamia nuts has increased in the monoculture farming environments producing a massive amount of nutshells which mostly remains as leftover and burden for the industry, and are eventually challenging to dump. Macadamia nutshells are hard, tough, and comparable to aluminium. In developing engineered composite materials for various purposes such as light duty, structural and semi-structural, it is often essential to harden the materials by natural fillers or fibres. Macadamia nutshells are by nature hard and tough. Hence, it is very interesting to choose macadamia nutshells as fillers given that other manufacturing conditions are economic. It is the time to understand macadamia nutshells from the perspective of a component of natural fibre/filler composites in the global urgency of coming back to natural fillers in composite manufacturing and switching from synthetics. Minimizing the use of synthetics is now a worldwide voice. Relevant findings need to be reviewed and disseminated to thoroughly understand overall achievements and knowledge gaps. A summary of current research on macadamia nutshells and their bio-synthetic polymer composites along with their prospective scopes will be presented here. |
Keywords | Macadamia; Applications; Properties; Fillers; Composites; Nutshells |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 401602. Composite and hybrid materials |
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Byline Affiliations | School of Engineering |
Centre for Future Materials |
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