Soya bean/cellulose fibers

Fiber, other They include natural/vegetable, sisal, asbestos, ramie, flax, soya bean/cellulose, and hemp types. 

Plants are very attractive and potential sources of cellulose primarily because they are abundant and relatively cheap to harvest. Cellulose can be extracted from lignocellulosic fibers, which are available aU over the world. A wide variety of plant materials like cotton, ramie, sisal, flax, wheat straw, tubers, sugar beet, soya bean, etc., are known for cellulose microfibril production. Wood is another main important source of extracting cellulose fibrils, where cellulose microfibrils were reinforced by intracellular amorphous materials made of hemicelluloses, lignin, resin, etc. Extraction of pure cellulose microfibrils from these lignocelluloseic materials involves chemical treatments such as alkali extraction and bleaching. 

Wang et al. extracted cellulose nanofibres from soybean stock by chemo-mechanical treatments with diameter ranging from 50-100 nm and size of -1000 nm (2007). The cellulose nano fibers were dispersed in polymeric matrix of poly (vinyl alcohol) (PVA) and polyethylene (PE) by addition of dispersant ethylene-aciylic oligomer. The soya bean stock based PVA films showed an increase of 4-5 fold in tensile strength. 

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