Effect of plant fibers on the physical properties of slurry-processed reconstituted tobacco

Tong Liu, Yixuan Wang, Chunping Wang, Qi Zhang, Le Wang, Yuhan Li, Linyang Xu, Xinyan Jin, Xianzhong Yin, Zhan Zhang, Chong Luo, Lili Fu, Yangbing Wen, Bin Li · 2024

Read Effect of plant fibers on the physical properties of slurry-processed reconstituted tobacco by Tong Liu, Yixuan Wang, Chunping Wang, Qi Zhang, Le Wang, Yuhan Li, Linyang Xu, Xinyan Jin, Xianzhong Yin, Zhan Zhang, Chong Luo, Lili Fu, Yangbing Wen, Bin Li (2024) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-11614665.txt.

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Tong Liu and co-authors study how plant fibers change reconstituted tobacco sheets in a 2024 paper. Reconstituted tobacco is made by a slurry process, and plant fibers are added to give the sheets strength. The team varied both the fiber type and how much the fibers were beaten, then measured strength, stiffness, and heat flow.

Most fiber types first improved and then weakened the sheets as beating increased, while bamboo kept improving and hardwood moved the other way. Softwood fibers gave the largest gains under equal beating. At one beating level, softwood raised the lengthwise tensile index by more than forty percent and the burst index by more than sixty percent. Heat flow also rose slightly. The authors name softwood as the strongest option.

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CREATORTong Liu, Yixuan Wang, Chunping Wang, Qi Zhang, Le Wang, Yuhan Li, Linyang Xu, Xinyan Jin, Xianzhong Yin, Zhan Zhang, Chong Luo, Lili Fu, Yangbing Wen, Bin Li
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE26 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11614665

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