摘要:
A resin, method of resin infusion, and parts formed thereby are disclosed. The method is particularly useful in greatly strengthening appearance prototypes such as those formed on powder bed three-dimensional printers to make them suitable for handling and testing in a host of environments. The method comprises heating the liquid resin to lower its viscosity, infusing a porous form with the heated resin and curing the infused resin to form the part. The liquid resin is typically heated from about 35° C. to about 80° C. and most preferably is under vacuum with the porous form submerged therein to facilitate infusion. Excess resin is removed from the porous form and reusable for subsequent infusion. The resin-infused form is then cured, typically by heating in the range of 100° C. to 200° C. Resulting parts may be very hard and have very high compressive strengths, even exceeding 30,000 psi.
摘要:
A method for manufacturing a composite separator plate for a fuel cell stack. The method includes preparing expanded graphite into particles, and dispersing the expanded graphite particles into a polymeric resin. The resin, including the graphite particles, is compression molded to form the separator plate. In one embodiment, the expanded graphite is dispersed into the polymeric resin by mixing it in to the resin. In an alternate embodiment, the expanded graphite is sprinkled into the polymeric resin using an SMC-like process.
摘要:
A composite material includes a matrix and carbon fibrous structures. The carbon fibrous structure has a three dimensional network of carbon fibers, each having an outside diameter of 15-100 nm, and has a granular part with which two or more carbon fibers are tied together such that the carbon fibers extend therefrom, and the granular part being produced in a growth process of the carbon fibers. The additive amount of the carbon fibers is in the range of 0.1 to 30% by weight of total weight of the composite material.
摘要:
A method for creating a tangible item (such as an “A” pillar garnishment 18) which increases the capacity of the item to absorb energy by the incorporation and/or addition of a plurality of adhesive-covered beads 25, and which utilizes the method and/or type of energy used to normally form the item to incorporate and/or add the adhesive-covered beads 25, thereby increasing efficiency while reducing cost. A new and novel tangible item, such as “A” pillar garnishment 18, having programmed energy absorption characteristics is also disclosed.
摘要:
A solid surface sheet includes visible, elongated, shredded cuttings uniformly distributed throughout a matrix wherein the cuttings and the matrix have substantially the same specific weight and wherein a majority of the cuttings are substantially elongated. Related methods are also disclosed including shredding a first mix while in a gel state, curing the cuttings, sorting by size, and using as a filler in a base material to form a blend having a unique appearance and high internal strength. The preferred material is polyester or acrylic. The solid surface sheet can be used as a countertop, floor or wall panel, furniture, and in similar applications.
摘要:
Methods for slurry processing of nanomaterials into products. These methods are useful for organic, inorganic, metallic, alloy, ceramic, conducting polymer, non-conducting polymer, ion conducting, non-metallic, ceramic-ceramic composite, ceramic-polymer composite, ceramic-metal composite, metal-polymer composite, polymer-polymer composite, metal-metal composite, processed materials including paper and fibers, and natural materials such as mica, dielectrics, ferrites, stoichiometric, non-stoichiometric, or a combination of one or more of these. These methods also allow the fabrication of a functionally graded products.
摘要:
Nanocomposites from nanofillers with preferred form of whiskers, rods, plates and fibers are disclosed. The matrix composition described includes polymers, ceramics and metals. The composition disclosed include inorganic, organic and metallic. These nanocomposites are useful in wide range of applications given their unusual properties such as refractive index, transparency to light, reflection characteristics, resistivity, permittivity, permeability, coercivity, B-H product, magnetic hysteresis, breakdown voltage, skin depth, curie temperature, dissipation factor, work function, band gap, electromagnetic shielding effectiveness, radiation hardness, chemical reactivity, thermal conductivity, temperature coefficient of an electrical property, voltage coefficient of an electrical property, thermal shock resistance, biocompatibility, and wear rate.
摘要:
Decorative surface material having a decorative pattern in which a combination of domains of varying sizes and colors are defined by shading variations at the interfaces of adjoining domains, the decorative pattern being provided by a process in which a flowable thermosettable molding formulation having orientable particles mixed therein is divided into fragments which are mixed together, the mixture is fed into a hot mold and pressure is applied to form the solid surface material.
摘要:
Methods for changing the surface area of nanomaterials to improve properties, processing and product manufacturing. These methods are useful for oxides, nitrides, carbides, borides, metals, alloys, chalcogenides, and other compositions.