High-speed fabrication of thermoplastic carbon fiber fabric composites with a polymerizable, low-viscosity cyclic butylene terephthalate matrix for automotive applications

Carbon fiber-reinforced plastics based on epoxy resin toughened with core shell rubber impact modifiers

“…The density of the reinforcement was 1.82 g/m 3 , and the areal weight of the CF fabric used was 123.1 g/m 2 . A bisphenol F-type liquid epoxy resin (YDF-170, Kukdo, Seoul, Korea) was used as the matrix.…”

Thermal conductivity of graphene nanoplatelets filled composites fabricated by solvent-free processing for the excellent filler dispersion and a theoretical approach for the composites containing the geometrized fillers

“…The initial powder mixtures were further mixed using a mixer (ARE 310, Thinky Corp., Tokyo, Japan) for 3 min at 2000 rpm. The mixed fine powder was filled in a rectangular mold of 2 mm thickness and 4 cm² area, and a heating press (Dae Heung Science Co., Incheon, Korea) was used to form composites under a pressure of 15 MPa for 2 min at 180 [29,30].…”

ED-ROP of macrocyclic oligomers: A synthetic tool for multicomponent polymer materials

“…When ED-ROP of polyester macrocycles is exploited for the reactive processing of fiber-reinforced TPCs, differently from other polymerization methods which being exothermic can lead to non-uniform distribution of properties, practically no heat is generated, this affording more uniform and improved material properties. [81][82][83][84][85] Moreover, the water-like melt viscosity behavior of MCOs makes them advantageous ingredients for polymermatrix composite materials when using compression molding, pultrusion, injection molding, and liquid composite molding (LCM) techniques. 80 The last are techniques, such as thermoplastic resin transfer molding (TP-RTM), structural reaction injection molding (SRIM), vacuum-assisted resin infusion (VARI), and resin film infusion (RFI), which are similar to pre-preg production for thermoset composites but use pre-preg hand lay-up.…”

“…As thoroughly reviewed by Abt and Sanchez-Soto, 26 CBT macrocycles have been extensively investigated in academic and applicative research for the preparation of fiber-reinforced TPCs because of their low melting temperature ( 160 °C), low viscosity (0.02 Pa s when heated above 150 °C, 83 good mechanical properties, usefulness in various applications, and commercial availability. Composites based on pCBT and glass fibers (GF), 26,84 and carbon fibers (CF), 26,83,85,86 either as unidirectional fibers or woven fabrics, are considered in the following.…”

“…Continuous fiber-reinforced pCBT composites containing CF 83,91 or carbon fabric 26,85,86 have been investigated by many researchers. Different experimental conditions for composite manufacturing processes based on melt blending, compression molding and vacuum infusion were proposed.…”