Polystyrene reinforced by self-welded glass fibers: Kinetics of polyamide 6 preferential segregation

In situ reactive interfacial compatibilization of polylactide/sisal fiber biocomposites via melt-blending with an epoxy-functionalized terpolymer elastomer

“…Fu et al found that the poly(ether)urethane had stronger interaction with carbon bers compared with PLA and it played a role of "solder" to weld the carbon bers into a more perfect network during their investigation of incorporating poly(ether)urethane into polylactide/carbon ber composites. 21 The similar phase morphology, so-called self-weld ber structure, 22,23 was obtained in this study for the PLA/SF/EGMA composites via in situ reaction processing. Part of the so EGMA phase enriched on the sisal ber surface, and welded the sisal bers to PLA matrix.…”

Effect of polyphenylene sulfide containing amino unit on thermal and mechanical properties of polyphenylene sulfide/glass fiber composites

“…To further investigate the adhesion between GF and PPS matrix, microbond test, as one of the most directive methods, was used to measure the bonding strength between the fiber and PPS matrix through the apparent interfacial shear strength (τ app ) in this work. The values of the individual τ app of PPS/GF composite and PPS‐NH 2 (1.0)/GF composite were shown in Figure .…”

“…Normally, there are many ways to improve the interfacial adhesion between GF and thermoplastic resin, such as air plasma treating with thermoplastic resins, introducing suitable coupling agent adding compatibilizers and so on . Generally, plasma treatment was complicated, expensive and low temperature requirement.…”

“…While adding compatibilizers into the composites are thought to be the lowest cost, convenient and efficient methods. In the previous report, the grafted polypropylene (PP) was used as the compatibilizer to reinforce polypropylene/long glass fiber (PP/LGF) composites and polyamide 66 (PA66) was also used as the compatibilizer to reinforce polystyrene/glass fiber (PS/GF) composites . The results showed that the compatibilizer could significantly increase the mechanical properties of corresponding composites.…”

Effects of polyarylene sulfide sulfone on the mechanical properties of glass fiber cloth-reinforced polyphenylene sulfide composites

“…Normally, the main solutions to improve the interfacial adhesion of fiber and resin include plasma treatment, 15,16 suitable coupling agent treatment, 17,18 and blend modification with appropriate polymer or graft polymer. 6,19,20 Anagreh et al 16 studied the low-pressure plasma pretreatment of PPS surfaces for adhesive bonding at the aluminum surface. In our previous work, 21 air dielectric barrier discharge plasma treatment can lead to the emergence of oxygen-containing polar groups (S¼O and -SO 2 -) on the PPS film surface.…”