Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP160101763
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Tough bio-derived and biodegradable wood plastic composites. This project aims for the development of tough bio-based and biodegradable wood plastic composites (WPCs), directly addressing a key end-user demand that performance of bio-WPCs must be at least comparable with existing commercial WPCs. The project expects to generate key innovations such as developing a new, high performance, bio-based and biodegradable WPC by incorporating native spinifex-derived nano-cellulose fibres, ensuring excellent, molecular-level dispersion with a novel low-cost and energy-efficient wet-mix technology. This will provide significant benefits as it will lead to new products and markets for the Australian forestry industry and for rural and indigenous Australia, maximising Australia’s competitive advantage in biomass-derived products.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 12-2017
End Date: 03-2021
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $173,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Wood Fibre Processing | Polymers and Plastics | Materials Engineering | Crop and Pasture Biomass and Bioproducts
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Reconstituted Timber Products (e.g. Chipboard, Particleboard) | Environmentally Sustainable Manufacturing not elsewhere classified |
