Plastics not only bring convenience and color to human life, but also bring endless troubles
and disaster to our environment. Reutilization of plastic wastes is in favor of energy …

Plastic is referred to as a “material of every application”. From the packaging and automotive
industries to the medical apparatus and computer electronics sectors, plastic materials are …

Phenolic resin is a matrix material widely used in ablative thermal protection systems (TPS)
and its pyrolysis behavior is crucial for the analysis and prediction of TPS thermal response …

Material properties and oxidation behavior of low-density felts used as substrates for
conformal carbon/phenolic ablators were compared with those of a rigid carbon fiber …

Abstract Thermal Protection Materials (TPM) such as carbon/phenolic composites are used
to protect spacecraft structures from extreme conditions. This protection is, in part, achieved …

Many engineering applications involve reacting porous materials submitted to high
temperatures. This work presents a detailed but pragmatic heat and mass transfer model for …

Material response models for phenolic-based thermal protection systems (TPSs) for
atmospheric entry are limited by the lack of knowledge of the nonequilibrium processes that …

The discarded bakelite cannot be easily recycled into useful products as it gets charred
upon heating. The addition of thermoplastics like polystyrene (PS) to bakelite during …

Lightweight and nanoporous composite materials with excellent thermal insulation and
strong mechanical property are urgently required to address prominent issues that pertain to …

Spacecrafts such as Stardust (NASA, 2006) are protected by an ablative Thermal Protection
System (TPS) for their hypersonic atmospheric entry. A new generation of TPS material …