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Significant effort was spent in enhancing the mechanical characteristics of this group of materials to increase their strengths and applications, especially via the hybridization process, by manipulating the characteristics of fiber-reinforced composite materials. Current studies concentrate on enhancing the understanding of natural fiber-matrix adhesion, enhancing processing methods, and natural fiber compatibility. The optimal and resilient conceptions have also been addressed due to the inherently more significant variabilities. Moreover, much research has tackled natural fiber reinforced hybrid composite costs. In addition, this review article aims to offer a review of the variables that lead to the mechanical and structural failure of natural fiber reinforced polymer composites, as well as an overview of the details and costings of the composites.</jats:p>","journal":"Polymers","year":2021,"id":24601,"datarank":5.590644850167145,"base_score":5.493061443340548,"endowment":5.493061443340548,"self_citation_contribution":0.8239592165010824,"citation_network_contribution":4.766685633666063,"self_endowment_contribution":0.8239592165010824,"citer_contribution":4.766685633666063,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":242,"citer_count":200,"citers_with_citation_signal":152,"citers_with_endowment":152,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":147161,"name":"R. A. 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