Development of advanced bamboo stem derived chemically designed material

The present work reports a novel process for developing advanced chemically designed materials by utilizing both bamboo stem and fly ash's inherent chemical and complementary properties. The process involves forming unique heterogeneous tailored precursor material using treated bamboo stem and Class F-fly ash to develop advanced chemically designed material in a Panel form. In the process, the bamboo stem plays a dual role by helping in the in-situ formation of chemicals like sodium silicates; sodium lignates etc. which are essential for the formation of geo polymeric moieties during the reaction processing in the developed product. The other is the so formed cellulosic derived fibers are used as natural reinforcement fibres.