a tough natural fibre made from the leaves of the plant Furcraea andina, similar to hemp
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Both viscoelastic stiffness and glass transition temperature were increased with the amount of incorporated fique fabric.
Sergio Neves Monteiro, Foluke Salgado de Assis, Carlos Luiz Ferreira, Noan ToniniSimonassi, Ricardo Pondé Weber, Michelle Souza Oliveira, Henry A. Colorado, ArturCamposo Pereira 2018, 'Fique Fabric: A Promising Reinforcement for Polymer Composites', Polymershttp://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/10/3/246. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)