New methods are being developed to enable the production of value-added materials from high-volume, low-cost feedstocks arising from domestic recycling streams. In this work, recycled bottle-grade polyethylene terephthalate, polystyrene, and polypropylene were spun into fibers from the melt using a centrifugal spinning technique. Mono-component fibers and 50/50 blends of each polymer and a 33/3...

A retardation effect of boric acid on the cyclization reaction of polyacrylonitrile (PAN) was clearly observed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The Lewis acid nature of boric acid probably accounts for this retardation effect. A quantitative evaluation of this effect was also made, indicating two potential applications, i.e., high temperature stabilization and melt spinning, which ar...

AB -type intermetallic compounds were prepared by the melt spinning method. Structure analysis was carried out by X-ray 5 diffractometry, SEM and high resolution electron microscopy. The hydrogen storage capacity was determined by isothermic mass controlled absorption of hydrogen and by electrochemical charge /discharge cycles. A variation of the preparation parameters showed that a nanocrystal...

In this work we study the structural evolution of Al and Fe based metallic glass compositions. The samples were obtained as ribbons by melt-spinning, their glass stability and crystallization were analyzed by calorimetry and dilatometry, structural changes were followed by in-situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction during annealing throughout glass transition and crystallization. The synchrotron res...

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