Alkali-activated concrete (AAC) is recognised as a novel sustainable construction material to
substitute Portland cement concrete with superior thermal and mechanical performance …

Fibre reinforced concrete (FRC) has gained increasing interest in recent years due to its
superior mechanical properties compared to normal concrete. To apply FRC in civilian and …

Flow-induced crystallization (FIC) is a typical nonequilibrium phase transition and a core
industry subject for the largest group of commercially useful polymeric materials …

During industrial processing, such as film blowing and injection molding, semicrystalline
polymers have to be subjected to external flow. Flow changes the nucleation rate, crystal …

With the assistance of an ultrafast time-resolved synchrotron radiation wide-angle X-ray
diffraction technique and a homemade hyphenated high-speed tensile apparatus, structural …

Fabrication of polymer films with superb mechanical properties is far from mature compared
to that of fibers, hampering the further engineering applications of lightweight polymer …

Flow-induced crystallization in polymers is an important problem in both fundamental
polymer science and industrial polymer processing. The key process of flow-induced …

The general aspects of polymer crystallization under external flow, ie, flow-induced
crystallization (FIC) from fundamental theoretical background to multi-scale characterization …

We perform united atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to quantify the role of flow-
induced nematic order in polyethylene (PE) crystal nucleation. Blends of periodic stretched …

In many industrial processes, polymer melt undergoes complex flow-cooling environments
before being solidified into the final products. Investigating polymer crystallization under …