| dc.description.abstract | Kenaf fiber is increasingly getting the attention of the industries due to its excellent mechanical properties, feasibility, growth rate, and ease of cultivation. On the other hand, cellulose nanofibril is one of the important building blocks of all the bast fibers which significantly contributes to their mechanical properties. However, most of the studies in the literature have estimated the value of axial elastic modulus for fiber-bundles which has some unavoidable issues resulting in incorrect modulus. Moreover, the transverse elastic modulus is another important parameter that also needs to be studied. Hence, to compensate for the gap in the literature, a single unit of both kenaf microfiber and cellulose nanofibril have been subjected to nanomechanical characterization to analyze their surface morphology and determine their elastic modulus in the axial and transverse direction. The experiments also pave to a protocol to characterize micro and nanofibrils nanomechanically and determine their elastic moduli. | en_US |
