A mini review on the mechanical performance of nanocellulose reinforced composites.

The development of environmentally friendly materials and composites keeps growing interest from various industries and one of that is in polymer composites processing. The production of polymer composites with nanocellulose as a reinforcement material is currently a hot research area, owing to the superior properties of nanocellulose itself. Research on nanocellulose composites have made significant contributions to the development of functional and sustainable materials for various applications such as packaging, building and construction material, automotive, aerospace, and biomedical. The presence of nanocellulose in composites is usually affected the mechanical properties like tensile strength, flexural strength and impact strength. Besides that, there are several factors that can affect the mechanical properties of nanocellulose composites such as fiber loading, distribution, orientation and the use of compatibilizers. Thus, this article provides an extensive overview on the effect of nanocellulose on the mechanical performance of polymer composites. Besides, several factors that contributed in the production of an excellent mechanical properties of nanocellulose composites were also tackled. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]