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Inside Cover, Volume 133, Issue 26
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of applied polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-4628
pISSN - 0021-8995
DOI - 10.1002/app.43785
Subject(s) - cover (algebra) , front cover , crystallization , materials science , composite material , polymer science , phase (matter) , physics , mechanical engineering , engineering , thermodynamics , quantum mechanics
Shengnan Zhang, Hai Wang, Duigong Xu, Wenxiao Yang, Ping Tang and Yuezhen Bin examine the crystallization behavior of poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) and transcrystallization in carbon fiber/PVDF composites under temperature gradients. The cover image, taken using polarized‐light optical microscopy, exhibits a unique doubled transcrystalline layer with PVDF α and γ phases at the interface of the PVDF/ carbon fiber composites. On the carbon fiber, transcrytallization of PVDF γ phase (orange) occurs, which induces the growth of the transcrystalline α phase (yellow). (DOI: 10.1002/app.43605 )