Microwave heating as a means for carbon fibre recovery from polymer composites: A technical feasibility study

Materials Research Bulletin

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1549-1556

  Lester, Edward ^a   Kingman, Sam ^a   Wong, Kok Hoong ^a   Rudd, Chris ^a   Pickering, Stephen ^a   Hilal, Nidal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A. Composites; A. Polymers; C. Thermogravimetric analysis; D. Atomic force microscopy; D. Dielectric properties

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBON CARBON COMPOSITES; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MICROWAVE HEATING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TENSILE TESTING; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

LAMINATE TEMPERATURES; MICROWAVE ENERGY; POLYMER COMPOSITES; VIRGIN FIBERS;

CARBON FIBERS;

EID: 3042772545     PISSN: 00255408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.materresbull.2004.04.031     Document Type: Article

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