Highly flexible and tough concentric triaxial polystyrene fibers

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 5918-5923

  Jiang, Shaohua ^a   Duan, Gaigai ^a   Zussman, Eyal ^b   Greiner, Andreas ^a   Agarwal, Seema ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

1D composites; electrospinning; mechanical properties; tough; triaxial fibers

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION; FIBERS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MORPHOLOGY; POLYSTYRENES; REINFORCEMENT;

COAXIAL STRUCTURES; ELONGATION AT BREAK; FIBER MORPHOLOGY; REINFORCING MATERIALS; SINGLE FIBER; THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANES; TOUGH;

ELECTROSPINNING;

EID: 84899570286     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am500837s     Document Type: Article

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