Structure honeycomb

Epoxide resin laminates are of particular importance in the aircraft industry. It has been stated that the Boeing 757 and 767 aircraft use 1800 kg of carbon fibre/ epoxide resin composites for structural purposes per aeroplane. The resin has also been used with Aramid fibres for filament-wound rocket motors and pressure vessels. The AV-18 fighter aircraft is also said to be 18% epoxide resin/cc bon fibre composite. The resins are also widely used both with fibres and with honeycomb structures for such parts as helicopter blades. 

The principal applications for furan resins are in chemical plant. Specific uses include the lining of tanks and vats and piping and for alkali-resistant tile cements. The property of moisture resistance is used when paper honeycomb structures are treated with furan resins and subsequently retain a good compression strength even after exposure to damp conditions. 

Quite often, NBR adhesives are used to bond various kinds of gasketing (cork, fibre, foam, rubber, metal) to rigid superstructures, such as aircraft. Films cast from solution are often used to fabricate honeycomb structures for aircraft. 

Surface preparation of the core foil was originally simple acid etching. As the importance of durable surface treatments became known, a more stable chemical conversion coating with an organic primer-like coating became standard. Still, water ingression into honeycomb structure continued to cause the occasional... 

Work on the production and oxidation of SWNT samples at SRI and other laboratories has led to the observation of very long bundles of these tubes, as can be seen in Fig. 2. In the cleanup and removal of the amorphous carbon in the original sample, the SWNTs self-assemble into aligned cable structures due to van der Waals forces. These structures are akin to the SW nanotube crystals discussed by Tersoff and Ruoff they show that van der Waals forces can flatten tubes of diameter larger than 2.5 nm into a hexagonal cross-sectional lattice or honeycomb structure[17]. 

Figure 8 Cross-section of cashew nut showing the Honeycomb structure [133J.

The basic building block of carbon is a planar sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb structure (called graphene or basal plane). These carbon sheets are stacked in an ordered or disordered manner to form crystallites. Each crystallite has two different edge sites (Fig. 2) the armchair and zig-zag sites. In graphite and other ordered carbons, these edge sites are actually the crystallite planes, while in disordered soft and hard carbons these sites, as a result of turbostratic disorder, may not... 

The small particles are reported to be very harmful for human health [98]. To remove particulate emissions from diesel engines, diesel particulate filters (DPF) are used. Filter systems can be metallic and ceramic with a large number of parallel channels. In applications to passenger cars, only ceramic filters are used. The channels in the filter are alternatively open and closed. Consequently, the exhaust gas is forced to flow through the porous walls of the honeycomb structure. The solid particles are deposited in the pores. Depending on the porosity of the filter material, these filters can attain filtration efficiencies up to 97%. The soot deposits in the particulate filter induce a steady rise in flow resistance. For this reason, the particulate filter must be regenerated at certain intervals, which can be achieved in the passive or active process [46]. 

STM studies of the Au(llO) surface indicated that only the Se (2x3) structure was formed at coverages much below one monolayer and that it was formed homogeneously. At monolayer and higher coverages, a honeycomb structure composed of chains of Se atoms was observed, which at still higher coverages filled in to complete a second Se layer. 

The interaction of hydrogen with preadsorbed oxygen at Pt(lll) led to hexagonal and honeycomb structures to develop at 131 K, which could be associated with OH phases with also evidence for water formation. The front (bright ring) consisted mainly of OH(a) and the area behind the front of H20(a). The mechanism suggested is that H(a) reacts first with 0(a) to form OH(a) and then H20(a) the water is mobile and reacts with O(a) to form OH(a) it is therefore an autocatalytic reaction. 

When one, or both, the interactive modules are tridentate, bidimensional (2D) architectures can be formed. A frequently recurring pattern is the (6,3) network (honeycomb structure), which is sometimes formed when onium halides self-assemble with dihalocarbons. Halide anions work as tridentate XB acceptors and occupy the nodes while the dihalocarbons work as bidentate XB donors and form the sides that space the nodes. Such architectures are present in the co-crystals l,4-DITFB/Ph4P+Br , l,4-DITFB/Me4N+r [155], and a,oo-diiodoperfluoroalkanes/K.2.2.2.cKI [128,189]. The less planar the trigonal arrangement around the nodes, the more corrugated the honeycomb structure (Fig. 9). 

Fig. 10 Schematic representation of the nanoreplication processes from block copolymers, a Growth of high-density nanowires from a nanoporous block copolymer thin film. An asymmetric PS-fc-PMMA diblock copolymer was aligned to form vertical PMMA cylinders under an electric field. After removal of the PMMA minor component, a nanoporous film is formed. By electrodeposition, an array of nanowires can be replicated in the porous template (adapted from [43]). b Hexagonally packed array of aluminum caps generated from rod-coil microporous structures. Deposition of aluminum was achieved on the photooxidized area of the rod-coil honeycomb structure (Taken from [35])...

The nanoreplication of functional nanostructures has also been achieved through other block copolymer-templated structures. De Boer et al. [35] applied honeycomb-structured films of rod-coil block copolymer as patterned templates to replicate hexagonally packed arrays of aluminum cups on the substrate surfaces (Fig. 10b). Nguyen et al. [237] embedded semiconducting polymers in the channels of oriented hexagonal nanoporous silica and used this nanoscale architecture to control the energy transfer for potential optoelectronic applications. 

Figure 1.14 SEM image of honeycomb-structured alumina onto a carbon electrode before O2 plasma exposure. (Reprinted with permission from Ref [40]. 2003 The Electrochemical Society.)...

In a related approach, these same porous alumina membranes serve as a mask through which O2 plasmas are used to etch underlying carbon films. This etching process produces honeycomb carbon structures that are positive replicas of the alumina-membrane mask. This process has successfully produced honeycomb structures of both diamond and graphitic carbon, with pore sizes in the carbon replica around 70 nm. 

Figure 13. Schematic of the ordering scheme found in Li2-MnOs showing the honeycomb structure formed by Li (red circles) and Mn (left-hand side) and the structure derived by replacing two Li and one Mn by three Ni (green circles).

Experimental results concerning the development of a small-scale 1 kW autothermal reformer of propane were reported by Rampe et al. [76]. In the proposed reactor, two reactions occur on a metal honeycomb structure coated with platinum. Air and water are mixed before they are fed to the reactor in counterflow to the product gas outside the reactor wall, where the water is vaporized and the steam and air are heated up. Then, they are mixed with propane at the bottom of the reactor. It was verified that the preheating operation mode led to about a 4% higher efficiency, since the higher inlet air temperature causes a higher temperature level in the reaction zone, resulting in improved kinetics of the reforming reaction. 

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