Rey Tormos, Romina María del; Serrat, Ramon; Alba Fernández, Jesús; Perez, Ildefonso; Mutje, Pere; Espinach, Francesc X.(MDPI AG, 2017)
[EN] The formulation of greener composite materials by substituting glass fibers with natural fibers is a current field of research. If such natural fiber reinforcements come from industrial side streams, as hemp core ...
Serrano, A.; Espinach, F. X.; Julian, F.; Rey Tormos, Romina María del; Mendez, J. A.; Mutje, P.(Elsevier, 2013-07)
The present paper investigates the suitability of old newspapers (ONPs) as a source of reinforcing fibers for composite materials. Different percentages of ONP fibers were compounded with polypropylene (PP). A coupling ...
Vilaseca, Fabiola; Rey Tormos, Romina María del; Serrat, Ramon; Alba Fernández, Jesús; Mutje, Pere; Espinach, Francesc X.(Elsevier, 2018)
[EN] Traditionally, glass fibre has been used as plastic reinforcement whenever mechanical properties of a matrix, like stiffness, do not meet the specifications. However, current tendencies try to replace glass fibres by ...