Advanced Composites Enter Soft Territory

Abstract

Covering fibers with elastomers and grafting elastic films onto those elastomers to form advanced composites is complementing and may be replacing coating and laminating of textiles.

Keywords

advanced composites low-level fiber-matrix bonds elastic matrix ink jet printing in situ polymerization.

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Cochran, W.H. 1995. "Advanced Composites Expand: Flexible Advances from Rigid Foundation," Hi-Tech Textiles Exhibition and Conference , Greenville, South Carolina: Book of Papers, pp. 145-151.