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W.E. Dyer
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Bio-Based Epoxies
Mechanical Properties And Free Volume Perspectives
Epoxy resins have been used as composite matrix materials for over half a century, enabling lightweight materials for a variety of applications. Their properties including high strength, chemical resistance, and ease of processing feature them as prime candidates for composite ap
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The present study describes the development of cure kinetics and chemo-rheological models for an epoxy vitrimer based on polyimine exchange to elucidate the potential in terms of processing and accurate process selection. Reaction kinetics is investigated using differential sc ...
Utilization of sustainable feedstocks to fabricate renewable thermosetting epoxy resins has been of great interest recently; however, their translation into composite structures and benchmark comparisons are poorly understood. Phloroglucinol is a phenolic molecule obtained from b
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Polymers as Aerospace Structural Components
How to Reach Sustainability?
The aerospace industry has been benefiting from the utilization of polymer materials since fiber-reinforced polymer composites (FRPC) offer high performances at low densities compared to metals. FRPC facilitated the design of lightweight materials, which is extensively used in ...
Putting the RAFT in GRAFT
Intermolecular graft exchange between bottlebrush polymers using reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer
A versatile synthetic methodology is presented for the preparation of graft copolymers with mixed graft distributions using reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT). The approach harnesses the ability of Z group-tethered grafts to fragment off the backbone to facil
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Contributed
The aerospace sector continues to drive innovations in high-performance materials. These materials however, tend to have energy intensive and emission heavy manufacturing processes. One of the most commonly used materials in aircrafts today are polymer matrix composites consistin
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