Polymers and polymer composites are negatively impacted by environmental ageing,
reducing their service lifetimes. The uncertainty of the material interaction with the …

With rising demand for construction materials, so too grow the environmental impacts
associated with their production. This trend has raised interest in the development of bio …

Vitrimers encompass the desirable mechanical properties of thermosets with the recyclability
of thermoplastics. This ability arises from the rearrangement of the vitrimer covalent network …

Hybrid polymer composites are vastly used in aerospace, construction, and automotive
fields. This study aims to analyze the flammability and vibrational behavior of graphene …

The elastic fibre prestressing (EFP) technique has been developed to balance the thermal
residual stress generated during curing of a polymeric composite. The continuous fibre …

Microscratch tests were carried out on polyamide (PA) and polypropylene (PP) by Berkovich
indenter to study influence of sliding velocity on microscratch response of carbohydrate …

Melt electrowriting (MEW) is an electrohydrodynamic process capable of producing
organized patterns of micrometer‐scale polymer fibers. Integrating MEW with other additive …

Graphene-based fillers are promising candidates for improving the long-term dimensional
stability of structural epoxy resins. The development of reliable accelerated test methods is …

Understanding the underlying processes associated with the viscoelasticity performance of
ethylene-propylene-diene monomer (EPDM) during its service life is essential for assessing …

The creep behaviour of thermoplastics plays an important role in engineering design and
especially the failure and lifetime prediction of structural components in a variety of …