And the molecular structure of the glass itself makes it more amenable to various coupling agents and sizings. This improves glass fiber’s adhesion to a broad variety of polymers. To be fair, at JEC I ...

as does using the correct size for the polymer matrix in the final composite structure. This business — a mixture of fine glass yarns and S-2 Glass fiber products — was spun off in 1998 as a joint ...

Fiber optics helped bring this ... a huge stick of chalk than a pristine chunk of glass. The soot has adhered in layers, but the overall structure is very porous, and the molecules haven’t ...

OxStu explores how the structure of glass makes it ubiquitous in everyday life and why we are still exploring its use.

These principles were applied to the design of a robotically fabricated shell structure based on a fibre composite system in which the resin-saturated glass and carbon fibres were continuously ...

But the liquidlike structure of glass means that over a long enough ... 20 years because researchers have figured out ways to make the density of glass used for optical fibers more uniform and, ...

Thin crystalline fibers made of a protein ... trying to obtain lab-grown crystals to study the structure, the researchers decided to take the glass needles from a sponge skeleton and analyze ...