Synergistic effect of natural fiber-reinforced polymer composite

Abstract Natural fiber-reinforced polymer composites (NFRPC) offer numerous advantages over the widely used nonrenewable materials sources in terms of recyclability, lower pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions, and enhanced energy recovery. Also, these materials are relatively cheap and have low density, low machine wear, good thermal insulation, and acoustic properties, high flexural strength, and abundance in quantity. Utilizing the synergetic effect, currently, hybrid composites are fabricated through a combination of multiple interfacial additives to overcome certain drawbacks like high moisture absorbing property and poor wettability often noticed in NFRPCs. In this chapter, the synergistic effect of NFRPC obtained through hybridization technique with multiple natural fiber fillers, the effect of nanofillers and synthetic hybridization are discussed.