Hostname: page-component-7b7567c8c-2n9c9 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-11-14T21:16:30.558Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

High Compressive Strength Ordered Polymer Fibers and Films Via Sol Gel Microcomposite Processing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

Robert F. Kovar,
Richard W. Lusignea,
R. Ross Haghighat,
Carlo Pantano and
Edwin L. Thomas
Robert F. Kovar
Affiliation:
Foster-Miller, Inc. 350 Second Avenue Waltham, MA 02154-1196
Richard W. Lusignea
Affiliation:
Foster-Miller, Inc. 350 Second Avenue Waltham, MA 02154-1196
R. Ross Haghighat
Affiliation:
Foster-Miller, Inc. 350 Second Avenue Waltham, MA 02154-1196
Carlo Pantano
Affiliation:
Materials Science & Engineering Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA
Edwin L. Thomas
Affiliation:
Materials Science & Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139
Get access

Abstract

Sol-gel glass microcomposite processing of polybenzobisthiazole (PBZT) films increased the compressive strength of PBZT/PEEK film laminates by more than four times. The presence of glass within microfibrillar regions of PBZT/sol-gel glass microcomposite films inhibited microbuckling during compression and greatly increased resistance to compressive failure.

Studies of PBZT/sol-gel glass microcomposite film morphology conducted at UMass by E.L. Thomas and at Penn State by C. Pantano indicated sol-gel glass precursor solutions had condensed within PBZT to produce a fine-scale (100 to 300Å) granular structure, homogeneously distributed throughout PBZT lamellae of microfibrils.

In a parallel effort, we have successfully extended sol-gel microcomposite processing technology for the improvement of compressive strength in ordered polymer fibers. Details concerning our results will be discussed.

Information

Type
Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 175: Symposium S – Multifunctional Materials , 1989, 193
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

1. Allen, S.R.. Filippov, A.G., Farris, R.J., Thomas, E.L., Wong, C.P., Barry, G.C., and Chenevey, E.C., Macromolecules, 14, 1135 (1981).Google Scholar
2. Allen, S.R., Fillppov, A.G., Farris, R.J., and Thomas, E.L., "The Strength and Stiffness of Polymers," Zachariades, A.E. and Porter, R.S., eds., Marcel Dekker, New York (1983).Google Scholar
3. Wolfe, J.F.. Loo, B.M., and Arnold, F.E., Macromolecules, 14, 915 (1981); Mark, J.E., and S.J. Pan, Macromolecules, Rapid Comm. 3, 681–685 (1982); Ning, Y.P., M.Y. Tang, C.Y. Jiang, and J.E. Mark, Journal App. Poly. Sci., 29, 3209–3212 (1984).Google Scholar
4. Land, Pottick Farris, R.J., "Alterations in the Structure and Mechanics of PBT Fibers due to the Collapse Process During Drying,: Nonwovens Symposium (April 1985).Google Scholar
5. Cohen, Y. and Thomas, E.L., Macromolecules 21, 433 (1988).Google Scholar
6. Lusignea, R.W., Research in Progress, "Processing Rod-Like Polymers," Contract No. F33615-84-C-5120. “Ordered Polymers for Large Mirror Substrates,” Contract No. F33615-85-C-5009.Google Scholar
7. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Glasses and Glass Ceramics from Gels, 3. Non-Crystalline Solids, 48, 1–2 (1982).Google Scholar
8. Drzal, L.T., “The Interfacial and Compressive Properties of Polybenzothiazole Fibers,” AFWAL-TR-86-4003 (1986).Google Scholar
9. Kovar, R.F.. Haghighat, R. and Lusignea, R.W., “Microcomposite Processing and Applications,” AFOSR Phase II Final Report No. AFB-0022-FM-8689-93.Google Scholar