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The path to "single-component composites": An in situ X-ray study of melting and crystallization of extended-chain polyethylene fibers under pressure
Abstracts of papers presented at the 4th Meeting on Pheromone Research in Israel Abstracts of papers presented at the 9th Congress of the Phytopathological Society of Israel
The Failure of Big Business: On the Socio-Economic Reality of the Middle East Peace Process
Technology and development of self-reinforced polymer composites
In recent years there has been an increasing amount of interest, both commercially and scientifically, in the emerging field of "self-reinforced polymer composites". These materials, which are sometimes also referred to as "single polymer composites", or "all-polymer composites", were first conceived in the 1970s, and are now beginning to appear in a range of commercial products. While high mechanical performance polymer fibres or tapes are an obvious precursor for composite development, various different technologies have been developed to consolidate these into two- or three-dimensional structures. This paper presents a review of the various processing techniques that have been reported in the literature for the manufacture of self-reinforced polymer composites from fibres or tapes of different polymers, and so exploit the fibre or tape performance in a commercial material or product