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Available online at: http://journal.ippi.ac.ir Effects of Coupling Agent and Interfacial Modifiers on Mechanical Properties of Poly(lactic acid) Iranian Polymer Journal 20 (4), 2011, 281-294 and Wood Flour Biocomposites * Yanling Wang, Rongrong Qi , Cheng Xiong, and Mark Huang School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P.R. China Received 6 September 2010; accepted 10 January 2011 A B S T R A C T D o reduce our dependency on depleting fossil fuels and their cost, biocomposites I were prepared using polylactic acid (PLA) as a matrix and wood flour (WF) as Tfiller by a twin-screw extrusion method. Because of poor wettability between S wood flour and PLA matrix, the properties of the PLA/wood flour composite are not right. Thus, the silane coupling agents (as the surface treatment agent of wood flour) and the interfacial modifiers (various copolymers) h