Laminating
A laminate is a material that can be constructed by uniting two or more layers of material together. The process of creating a laminate is lamination, which in common parlance refers to the placing of something between layers of plastic and glueing them with heat and/or pressure, usually with an adhesive.
Recent Journal Articles
10/29/2010
Dielectric behavior characterization of a fibrous-ZnO/PVDF nanocomposite
(pages 1003–1010)Polymer Composites 31 #6 (2010)
Dagdeviren and Papila of Sabanci University, Turkey formed this composite by first producing ZnO nanofibers is by sintering electrospun PVA/Zinc Acetate fibers and, then, sandwiching ZnO fibrous nonwoven mat between two PVDF thermoplastic polymer films by hot-press casting. The fillers were well dispersed in the polymer matrix. The dielectric constant is enhanced up to a factor of 10 at low frequencies compared to the dielectric constant of constituent materials (both bulk ZnO and PVDF), and up to a factor of two compared to a bulk-ZnO/PVDF composite. (RDC 12/16/2010)
Void formation model and measuring method of void formation condition during hot pressing process
(pages 1562–1571)Polymer Composites 31 #9 (2010)
Gu et al of Beihang University, China used the Kardos void formation model to analyze the critical resin pressure for the initiation of voids. It is found that resin pressure and gel temperature are the two key parameters to control void defects and that entrapped air in prepreg stacks must be considered in the void formation model. The theoretically predicted void formation conditions agreed with the experimental results. (RDC 12/15/2010)