Cellulosic fibres, especially jute and cotton, are the most abundant agriculturalrenewable raw materials. They have the qualities of stiffness, low elasticity,susceptibility toward sunlight and microbial attacks etc. which ...

Hydrogels are insoluble, three-dimensional, crosslinked polymeric networks which swell in the presence of water and other fluids. They can imbibe plenty of water without dissolution compared to their own mass. Most of the ...