Interfacial adhesion between fiber and matrix has a strong influence on composite mechanical performance. To exploit the reinforcement potential of the fibers in advance composite, it is necessary to reach a deeper understanding on the relation between fiber surface treatment and interfacial adhesion. In this study, air plasma was applied to modify carbon fiber (CF) surface, and the capability of plasma grafting for improving the interfacial adhesion in CF/thermoplastic composite was discussed and also the mechanism for composite interfacial adhesion was analyzed. Results indicated that air plasma treatment was capable of increasing surface roughness as well as introducing surface polar groups onto CF; both chemical bonding and mechanical interaction were efficient in enhancements of interlaminate shear strength of CF/PPESK composite, while mechanical interaction has a dominant effect on composite interfacial adhesion than chemical bonding interaction.

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Hydrogen chloride (HCl) contributes substantially to the atmospheric Cl; both species could affect the composition of Earth’s atmosphere and the fate of pollutants. Here, we present the kinetics study for syn-CH3CHOO reaction with HCl using experimental measurement and theoretical calculations. The experiment was conducted in a flow tube reactor at a pressure of 10 Torr and temperatures ranging from 283 to 318 K by using the OH laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) method. Transition-state theory and quantum chemistry calculations with QCISD­(T) were used to calculate the rate coefficients. Weak negative temperature dependence was observed with a measured activation energy of −(2.98 ± 0.12) kcal mol–1 and a calculated zero-point-corrected barrier energy of −3.29 kcal mol–1. At 298 K, the rate coefficient was measured to be (4.77 ± 0.95) × 10–11 cm3 s–1, which was in reasonable agreement with 2.2 × 10–11 cm3 s–1 from the theoretical calculation.

In inductively coupled plasma sources, discharge transitions from electrostatic mode (E mode) to electromagnetic mode (H mode) and from H mode to E mode occur. In previous studies, only a few works paid attention to the effects of the impedance matching network. Cunge et al. [Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 8, 576 (1999)] investigated the E-H and H-E mode transitions under two different impedance matching situations, but no physical mechanism or interpretation was presented. This issue is remained to be systematically and quantitatively investigated, and the underlying mechanism to be unveiled. In this paper, the effects of the impedance matching network were experimentally studied in electropositive argon gas by varying the series capacitance in an inversely L-shaped matching network. The positive and negative feedback regions are established according to the effect of varying the series capacitance on the output power of the rf power supply. It was found that under the same experimental parameters, the discharge mode transitions are apt to be discontinuous and continuous in the positive and negative feedback regions, respectively. In addition, the critical coil rf current (or applied power) at the mode transition, the hysteretic loop width, and the difference in applied power during the discharge mode transition vary with the series capacitance. The critical coil rf current at the E-H mode transition is not always higher than that at the H-E mode transition.