Springer Vegetable Fiber Composites and their Technological Applications (Composites Science and Technology)

This book explores vegetable fiber composite as an eco-friendly, biodegradable, and sustainable material that has many potential industrial applications. The use of vegetable fiber composite supports the sustainable development goals (SDGs) to utilize more sustainable and greener composite materials, which are also easy to handle and locally easily available with economical production costs. This book presents various types of vegetable fiber composite and its processing methods and treatments to obtain desirable properties for certain applications. The book caters to researchers and students who are working in the field of bio-composites and green materials. From the Back Cover This book explores vegetable fiber composite as an eco-friendly, biodegradable, and sustainable material that has many potential industrial applications. The use of vegetable fiber composite supports the sustainable development goals (SDGs) to utilize more sustainable and greener composite materials, which are also easy to handle and locally easily available with economical production costs. This book presents various types of vegetable fiber composite and its processing methods and treatments to obtain desirable properties for certain applications. The book caters to researchers and students who are working in the field of bio-composites and green materials. About the Author Dr. Mohammad Jawaid is currently working as Senior Fellow (Professor) at Biocomposite Technology Laboratory, Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products (INTROP), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, and also has been Visiting Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, since June 2013. He has more than 20 years of experience in teaching, research, and industries. His area of research interests includes hybrid composites, lignocellulosic-reinforced/filled polymer composites, advance materials: graphene/nanoclay/fire retardant, modification and treatment of lignocellulosic fibers and solid wood, biopolymers and biopolymers for packaging applications, nano-composites and nanocellulose fibers, and polymer blends. So far, he has published 40 books, 65 book chapters, more than 350 peer-reviewed international journal papers, and several published review papers under top 25 hot articles in science direct during 2013–2019. He also obtained 2 Patents and 6 Copyrights. H-index and citation in Scopus are 52 and 12521, and in Google Scholar, H-index and citation are 61 and 17402. He is founding Series Editor of Composite Science and Technology Book Series from Springer Nature, also Series Editor of Springer Proceedings in Materials, Springer Nature, and also International Advisory Board Member of Springer Series on Polymer and Composite Materials. He worked as Guest Editor of special issues of SN Applied Science, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Current Organic Synthesis, and Current Analytical Chemistry, International Journal of Polymer Science, IOP Conference Proceeding. He is also Editorial Board Member of Journal of Polymers and The Environment, Journal of Plastics Technology, Applied Science and Engineering Progress Journal, Journal of Asian Science, Technology and Innovation, and the Recent Innovations in Chemical Engineering. Besides that he is also Reviewer of several high-impact international peer-reviewed journals of Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Saga, ACS, RSC, Frontiers, etc. Presently, he is supervising 12 Ph.D. students (5 Ph.D. as Chairman and 7 Ph.D. as Member) and 6 master’s students (1 master as Chairman and 5 master as Member) in the fields of hybrid composites, green composites, nano-composites, natural fiber-reinforced composites, nanocellulose, etc. Twenty-six Ph.D. and 13 master’s students graduated under his supervision in 2014–2020. He has several research grants at university, national, and international le