Ultrahigh-strength polyethylene filaments by solution spinning and hot drawing

Ultrahigh strength polyethylene filaments by solution spinning/drawing. 3. Influence of drawing temperature

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Polyethylene Fiber Drawing Optimization

Polymer fiber drawing creates fibers with enhanced thermal conductivity and strength compared to bulk polymer because drawing aligns the molecular chains. I optimize the polymer fiber drawing method in order to achieve polymer fibers that are drawn to lengths exceeding 1cm and develop a method to cut and store them for future experimental purposes. With lengths exceeding 1cm, starting with leng...

Drawing Behavior of Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polyethylene (uhmwpe) Fibers in Supercritical C02

Elastic Properties of UHMWPE-SWCNT Nanocomposites Fiber: An Experimental, Theoretic, and Molecular Dynamics Evaluation

Ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene (PE) filaments were reinforced with 2 wt.% of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). The solution spinning method was used to produce both neat and reinforced PE filaments. Tensile tests and strain hardening through repeated loading-unloading cycles of the filaments revealed a spectacular contribution of the SWCNTs in enhancing the elastic properties, e...

Hot Baryons in Supercluster Filaments

Most of the baryons in the local universe are “missing” in that they are not in galaxies or in the previously detected gaseous phases. These missing baryons are predicted to be in a moderately hot phase, 10–10 K, largely in the form of giant cosmic filaments that connect the denser virialized clusters and groups of galaxies. Models show that the highest covering fraction of such filaments occur...