Co-Bonded Hybrid Thermoplastic-Thermoset Composite Interphase: Process-Microstructure-Property Correlation

A thermoplastic/thermoset blend exhibiting thermal mending and reversible adhesion.

In this paper, we report on the development of a new and broadly applicable strategy to produce thermally mendable polymeric materials, demonstrated with an epoxy/poly(-caprolactone) (PCL) phase-separated blend. The initially miscible blend composed of 15.5 wt % PCL undergoes polymerization-induced phase separation during cross-linking of the epoxy, yielding a "bricks and mortar" morphology whe...

Nanostructured Silica/Gold-Cellulose-Bonded Amino-POSS Hybrid Composite via Sol-Gel Process and Its Properties

It is demonstrated in this paper that silica nanoparticles coated with core/shell gold provide efficient thermal, optical, and morphological properties with respect to the cellulose-polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS) hybrid system. The one-step synthesis of a silica/gold nanocomposite is achieved with a simultaneous hydrolysis and reduction of gold chloride in the presence of formic a...

Novel Thermoplastic Polyimide Composite Materials

wood-thermoplastic interaction: microstructure and mechanical adhesion

The main objective of the research presented here was to relate anatomical features of wood species that affect the interactions between polymeric phases and performance of wood plastic composites (WPC). These interactions were related to the probable interlocking volume and surface area for stress transfer in a WPC. Composites were produced from different wood species and analyzed using SEM (s...

Stability of a Propagating Interphase Boundary in a Thermoplastic Material

The propagation of interphase boundaries in oneand two-dimensional deformations of solids that can undergo phase transformations has been studied by, amongst others, James [12], Hutchinson and Neale [11], Coleman [6], Fager and Bassani [7], and Tugcu and Neale [20, 21]. Many of these studies have been motivated by the experimental observations on the cold-drawing of polymer fibers and membranes...