Core-shell composite structures are potential candidates for Li-ion battery electrodes as they can take advantage of materials with higher energy density and materials with higher cyclability. This paper derives an analytical solution for isotropic 1-dimensional diffusion with galvanostatic boundary condition in composite slab, cylinder and sphere using separation of variables method. A general...

The conversion of structural dynamic strain into electric power using piezoelectric transducers to microelectronic devices and wireless sensor nodes for structure health monitoring has been receiving growing attention from academic researchers industry. Harvesting energy vibration storing it in an external infinite life-span capacitor is a proposed technique eliminate the drawbacks conventional...

The propagation of elastic waves along composite wire rope is considered. The rope is modeled as co-axial layers of cylindrically anisotropic material. Simple kinematical assumptions lead to a ‘‘rod theory’’ for the wire rope, consisting of three coupled onedimensional wave equations. Solutions of these equations are found. Results for a particular aluminum conductor steel reinforced (ACSR) con...

Novel bioresorbable core/shell composite fiber structures loaded with proteins were developed and studied. These unique polymeric structures are designed to combine good mechanical properties with a desired controlled protein-release profile, to serve as scaffolds for tissue regeneration applications. Core/shell fiber structures were formed by "coating" poly(L-lactic acid) fibers with protein-c...

We report a feasible approach to the preparation of monodispersed metal-shell composite microspheres based on a combination of surface reaction and surface seeding techniques. The method was implemented for coating polystyrene (PS) spheres with silver shell having a variable thickness by controlling the amount of reagents in the reaction procedure. These composite spherical particles in dimensi...

The advents in continuous fibre-reinforced polymer additive manufacturing (CFRP-AM) present unprecedented opportunities for the rapid development of next-generation high-performance composites with selectively and spatially distributed reinforcement. However, widely adopted 3-degree-of-freedom motion configuration current CFRP-AM systems hinders exploration composite structures non-planar fibre...

A conducting-electroactive polyaniline/magnetite (PAni/Fe304) nanocomposite was synthesized using anilinium dodecylbenzene sulfonate (S1) as a reactive surfactant. First, S1 allowed magnetite dispersion in the aqueous phase and second, S1 performed as the monomer of polyaniline emeraldine base salt. Electron microscopy suggested core-shell morphology based on S1 amphiphilic character; that is, ...