Stephanie Kwolek was the first to discover and synthesize Kevlar in 1964 at the laboratories in Wilmington. In 1950, Kwolek specialized in creating a solid gas based fibers. She was successful in creating the first monomer that is used to manufacture polybenzamide. From this unstable process that can only stay for a while and this result in acceptable solvent that all allow too be in low temperature polymer. When it is placed in the required state conditions, the polymer will become liquid substance, which is the opposite result of the previous discoveries and experiment. After the results, Kwolek wanted to rotate and spin this result into fiber. After the preserving, the final result appears to be marvelous in strength.
Figure 1 Stephanie Kwolek
Kevlar is made up of carbon fibers and shares the same characteristics as other aromatic polyamide. Kevlar has distinctive trait and chemical shape that makes it special from other human made fibers. Kevlar is made up of mixture of pure strength, high resistance, hardness, and heat stability. Nylon and polyester became available for human production of fibers in the late 20th century. They used to trim the fiber at its edge back in their time, but they need to reach a maximum of strength and an initial value. In order for that to achieve, the Kevlar molecules should have an extended set of figures and almost supreme clear order. With these bendable molecules such as nylon, this can only be made by mechanically pulled after the rotation process.
Scientist discovered, in the 1965 at Du Pont, a new way of making nearly perfect longer polymer chain. This method was found that it makes clear liquefied solution that arises to the repeated of the molecular backbone. The main requirement for t...
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... tough material is that it has bizarre inner structure. (Figure 4) This is concluded that hydrogen bonding process occurs between electrons dense and deficient. Hydrogen bonding can be occurred frequently to become a strong lattice, because Trans configuration gives big sized straight chains. The fibers have small amount of flaws that can be hard to break.
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During the cis conformation, hydrogens are very close to each other. While in the Trans conformation, there is more space and way less hindrance.
Kevlar is a big polymer that has plenty of hydrogen bond and it is very strong. The structural formula is C14H10N2O2. Kevlar has 14 carbon atoms, 10 hydrogen atoms, 2 nitrogen atoms, and 2 oxygen atoms. Kevlar is composed with the combination of terephthaloyl chloride and 1, 4-phenylene- diamine in a process of condensation to have result of hydrochloric acid.
Kevlar (10) - synthetic fiber that is often used as a reinforcing agent in tire and other rubber products. I is made up of high tensile strength.
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Other materials used for the Canadarm are aramid fibers [1] such as Kevlar [7]. This aerospace material is also used in bulletproof vests [12]. These aramid fibers are fibers in which the chain molecules are highly oriented along the fiber axis, so the strength of the chemical bond can be exploited [1]. Kevlar is also flame resistant [12] which bolds well in space due to the extreme heat from the solar winds. Kapton is another one of the materials used by spacecrafts. This material has the ability to sustain itself and be stable in many different temperatures such as -269 to 400 °C. Since Space is a vacuum the temperature is intense, therefore this material is well suited for counter...
Kevlar Aramid Fiber is a synthetic (man-made) material known as a Polymer. A polymer is a chain that is made up of many similar molecular groups, better known as ‘monomers’ that are bonded together. ‘Monomers’ are made up of fourteen Carbon atoms, two Nitrogen atoms, two Oxygen atoms and ten Hydrogen atoms. A single Kevlar polymer chain could possibly have anywhere from one to five million monomers bonded together.
Vectran is 5 to 10 times stronger than steel. They have another rapidly emerging fiber called spider silk. The resulting spider silk is biosteel. A strand of biosteel can be up to 20 times stronger than a strand of steel. To have a hard body armor, you have to make it out of thick ceramic or metal plates.
spaced –CONH– amide groups. Nylon 6-6, or poly(hexamethylneadipamide), is composed of. two structural monomers (hexamethylendiamine (H2N(CH2)6NH2) and adipic acid. (HOOC(CH2)4COOH), whereas Nylon 6, or poly(6-caprolactam), is composed of a single structural unit (either 6-aminocaproic acid (H2N(CH2)4COOH) or caprolactam). Ultimately, the answer is yes.
He then started making a substance that would strengthen wood. Baekeland did alot of tests on different types of wood with formaldehyde and phenol. Soon Baeland noticed that he had created a mixture that was insoluble in any solvent. It was on the 8th febuary 1907 Leo Baekeland explained what he had discovered. Soon after he announced that he had created a new substance he became a marketing success.
Since the early 1900’s, many different plastics have been developed, each having a special characteristic or advantage that makes it good for various purposes. Some plastics stood heat better, while some withstood shock better. Some could be spun into thread from making fabrics such as nylon. In 1938, Du Pont publicly announced the new synthetic fiber, nylon. The memo, that went out announcing nylon, defined “Nylon is the generic name for all materials defined scientifically as synthetic fiber-forming polymeric amides having a protein-like chemical structure; derivable from coal, air and water, or other substances and characterized by extreme toughness and strength and the peculiar ability to be formed into fibers and into various shapes such as bristles, sheets, etc” (138, 139).
Polystyrene is a thermoplastic polymer which is the third most important polymer which is synthetically prepared from the styrene of monomers which is petrochemical liquid. It can be hard or can b soft foamed. It is inexpensive resin that’s why it is clear, brittle and hard. The excellent processing and physical properties make this thermoplastic material very suitable that’s why it is used in many applications. It is a vinyl polymer which has long hydrocarbon chain and phenyl group attached to every other carbon atom. It is formed or produced by polymerization of vinyl which should be a free radical. This polystyrene is a component of type of hard rubber which is also called poly(styrene-butadiene-styrene). Polystyrene will take more volume in landfill than paper and enter the environment again and again when water or any mechanical force breach landfills. We can also say that it performed many functions as a monomer which is to be found in many different polymers. As estimated that the 17-21 million tons of polystyrene is produced yearly.
The question most people have when they hear of Kevlar is usually what is it. Kevlar is light-weight tensile fiber that is incredibly unique due to its chemistry and its properties. Chemically it is a polymer, a polymer is a long chain of molecules all linked together with the same basic unit over and over again, units such as hydrogen and carbon. Two polymers that are very commonplace today are diamonds and graphite, both of which contain many units of carbon, but in different structures with different properties. Kevlar is made up of numerous hydrogen bonds joined together which is why Kevlar is so strong, the hydrogen molecules are always in a constant state of combing with the oxygen molecules. Due to the unique structure, not only is Kevlar strong, but very light, very durable, very resistant to extreme frigid temperatures. Thankfully this innovation when it was first created, happened to be at the hands of the right people at the right time.
early 1990’s, no such material was known. In 1991, carbon nanotubes were discovered. Although not
Carbon fiber is a polymer and can be also called graphite fiber or carbon graphite. It consists of very thin strands of the element carbon aligned in a long axis and it has a high tensile strength and is very strong for its size. In fact, carbon fiber might be
Carbon fibers were discovered in the late 1800s by Thomas Edison. The early lightbulbs Edison created used the carbon fibers as filaments. These carbon fibers used to create the early lightbulbs had a substantial tolerance to heat, but they lacked the tensile strength of modern carbon fibers. Edison used cellulose-based materials, such as cotton or bamboo, to make his carbon fibers. He used a method called “pyrolysis” to cook the bamboo at high temperatures in a controlled atmosphere to carbonize bamboo filaments, making them fire-resistant and capable of enduring intense heat needed for luminescence.
Cellulose is an abundant polysaccharide consisting of a β-1, 4 linkage of D-glucose [1,3]. There is an array of applications for cellulose, including, but not limited to: biofuels, reinforcement agents, thickeners, dietary fiber, and even wound care. As of late, cellulose, as a waste product, has been in high demand as a reinforcement agent in synthetic, petroleum-based polymer matrices (petroleum based plastics) [3]. Cellulose I has good flexibility, it is abundant in nature and also biodegradable. Because of its fiber- like structure, it has been compared to carbon nanotubes (CNT’s) [3].