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Overview of banana cellulosic fibers: agro-biomass potential, fiber extraction, properties, and sustainable applications

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The world’s reliance on synthetics has amounted to oil reserves depletion and marine plastics littering. Accordingly, millions of tons of plastic waste end up in the ocean yearly from both human land and marine activities. So, reversing the shift back to sustainable, biodegradable, and natural materials is no longer a luxury option. The abundant agro-wastes are a promising substitute material. Banana plant residual parts are good cellulosic fiber sources for many applications, namely textiles, pulp and paper, biocomposites, construction, and food packaging industries. Given a few in-depth available review articles and the continuous studies reported about banana fibers, this study aims to scrutinize the banana fiber potentiality, commonly used fiber extraction techniques, key fiber properties (physical, chemical, morphological, mechanical), its current applications, and future perspective. Another aspect is to portray the optimistic ripple effect in terms of a reduced burden on traditional fiber crops and enriching the rural communities.

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The first author wishes to thank the Egyptian and Japanese governments for the EJUST-TICAD7 scholarship scheme and also the partial support from The University of Tokyo FSI—Nippon Foundation Research Project on Marine Plastics is appreciated.

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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, New Borg El-Arab, Alexandria, 21934, Egypt

    Osbert Akatwijuka, Mohamed A.-H. Gepreel & Ahmed H. Hassanin

  2. Biotechnology Program, Institute of Basic and Applied Science, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, New Borg El-Arab, Alexandria, 21934, Egypt

    Ahmed Abdel-Mawgood

  3. Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan

    Mitsuo Yamamoto & Yukie Saito

  4. Department of Textile Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria, 21544, Egypt

    Ahmed H. Hassanin

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Ahmed Hassanin and Osbert Akatwijuka conceived the initial idea and conducted the literature survey as well as data analysis. The first manuscript draft was written by Osbert Akatwijuka helped by Ahmed Hassanin. Mohamed Gepreel, Ahmed Abdel-Mawgood, Mitsuo Yamamoto, and Yukie Saito reviewed and provided crucial feedback on all the manuscript versions. All authors critically reviewed the final manuscript and approved it.

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Akatwijuka, O., Gepreel, M.AH., Abdel-Mawgood, A. et al. Overview of banana cellulosic fibers: agro-biomass potential, fiber extraction, properties, and sustainable applications. Biomass Conv. Bioref. 14, 7449–7465 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-022-02819-0

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