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New approach to fabricate densificated continuous fiber reinforced polytetrafluoroethylene composites with significantly improved interfacial bonding and mechanical properties
Author(s) -
Gu Aijuan,
Liang Guozheng
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of applied polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-4628
pISSN - 0021-8995
DOI - 10.1002/app.26022
Subject(s) - polytetrafluoroethylene , composite material , materials science , fiber , sintering
An unique two‐step technique to fabricate densified continuous fiber reinforced polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) composites with significantly improved interfacial bonding and mechanical properties have been successfully developed. The technique is conventional sintering followed by resin film infusion (RFI). The mechanical properties of the composites were studied, and results show that the composites have significantly improved interfacial bonding and mechanical properties. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 104: 3588–3591, 2007