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Short carbon fiber reinforced epoxy-ionic liquid electrolyte enabled structural battery via vacuum bagging process
Carbon fiber-based structural batteries with the functions of load bearing and energy storage simultaneously are highly attractive in aviation and automobile industry. In this work, a structural battery with L...
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Open AccessHigh performance surface-modified TiO2/silicone nanocomposite
The mismatch of refractive index (RI) between light emitting diode (LED) chips and packaging resins severely lowers the lighting emitting efficacy of LED. The RI can be enhanced by the introduction of high RI ...
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Open AccessFlexible wire-shaped strain sensor from cotton thread for human health and motion detection
In this work, a wire-shaped flexible strain sensor was fabricated by encapsulating conductive carbon thread (CT) with polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) elastomer. The key strain sensitive material, CT, was prepared ...
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Open AccessWearable Electronics of Silver-Nanowire/Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Nanocomposite for Smart Clothing
Wearable electronics used in smart clothing for healthcare monitoring or personalized identification is a new and fast-growing research topic. The challenge is that the electronics has to be simultaneously hig...
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A high ductility RTM epoxy resin with relatively high modulus and Tg
It is hard to obtain a high ductility resin transfer moulding (RTM) epoxy resin while maintaining relatively high modulus and Tg due to the requirement of low viscosity. In the paper, a high breaking elongatio...
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Cryogenic Processing: State of the Art, Advantages and Applications
Cryogenic processing is the one-time permanent treatment of the materials at very low temperatures to increase the physical and mechanical properties. Cryogenic processing is capable of treating a wide variety...
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Cryogenic Properties of Polymer Materials
The cryogenic properties of polymer materials have received great attention with new developments in space, superconducting, electronic and defense technologies as well as large cryogenic engineering projects ...
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Open AccessSelf-Assembled 3D Flower-Like Hierarchical β-Ni(OH)2Hollow Architectures and their In Situ Thermal Conversion to NiO
Three-dimensional (3D) flower-like hierarchicalβ-Ni(OH)2hollow architectures were synthesized by a facile hydrothermal route. The as-obtained products were well characterized by XRD, SEM, TEM (HRTEM), SAED, and D...
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Preparation and characterization of complex ferrite nanoparticles by a polymer-pyrolysis route
The polymer-pyrolysis route used in this work was to synthesize the copolymeric precursor of the mixed metallic ions and then to pyrolyze the precursor into complex spinel ferrite nanoparticles. Thermogravimet...
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Combined effect of fiber content and microstructure on the fracture toughness of SGF and SCF reinforced polypropylene composites
Composites of polypropylene (PP) reinforced with short glass fibers (SGF) and short carbon fibers (SCF) were prepared with extrusion compounding and injection moulding techniques. The fracture behavior of the ...
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Hybrid effects on tensile properties of hybrid short-glass-fiber-and short-carbon-fiber-reinforced polypropylene composites
Hybrid composites of polypropylene reinforced with short glass fibers and short carbon fibers were prepared using extrusion compounding and injection molding techniques. The tensile properties of these composi...
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Characterization of fiber length distribution of short-fiber reinforced thermoplastics
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A New Model for the Transverse Modulus of Unidirectional Fiber Composites
In this paper a new micromechanical model for predicting the transverse modulus of unidirectional continuous and discontinuous fiber composites is proposed. This model is based on modeling a composite with a r...
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The fibre pull-out energy of misaligned short fibre composites
A theoretical study on the fibre pull-out energy has been carried out for short fibre-reinforced composites. Two probability density functions were introduced for modelling the fibre-length distribution and th...
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Influences of artificial pre-stressing on ply stresses and tensile properties of Vinylon fibre-reinforced aluminium laminates (VIRALL)
A simple micromechanical model based primarily upon the rule-of-mixtures is developed which allows prediction of the effects of fibre preload on the ply stresses (i.e., the initial residual stresses of fibre, ...
