Sabic Innovative Plastics IP B.v.

General Electric Company

Sabic Global Technologies B.v.

Parnasree Maiti

Vaidyanath Ramakrishnan

Roopali Rai

Sonia Oberoi

Sandeep Tyagi

Theodorus L Hoeks

Edward Kung

Dibakar Dhara

Afroz Akhtar

Hans Looij

Ning Hao

Roshan Kumar Jha

Soumyadeb Ghosh

Raja Krishnamurthy

Pravin Borade

Manatesh Chakraborty

Rajashekhar Shiddappa Totad

Amit Biswas

Venkateswara Rao Kavala

Vitthal Abaso Sawant

Sandeep Tvagi

Vaidyanath Ramakrishan

Prochi Verma

Theodorus Lambertus Hoeks

The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for securing a lightning protection cable (e.g. a conductor) of a lightning protection system within a wind turbine rotor blade. The lightning protection system includes a plurality of lightning receptors configured along either or both of the pressure or suction sides of the rotor blade. The lightning receptors are connected via the conductor so as to form a conductive circuit. Further, a cover assembly defining a passageway therethrough is configured to receive at least a portion of the conductor along a length thereof. Thus, the cover assembly can be secured to an inner surface of the internal cavity so as to maintain a location of the conductor. Accordingly, the conductor is free to move within the cover assembly since the wire is not directly attached to the rotor blade.

System and method for securing a conductive cable within a wind turbine rotor blade

A method of preparing a polycarbonate nanocomposite comprising forming a reactant mixture comprising a nanomaterial, a solvent, a dihydroxy compound and an activated carbonate; and polymerizing the dihydroxy compound and the activated carbonate in the presence of the solvent to form the polycarbonate nanocomposite is disclosed. Also disclosed are polycarbonate nanocomposites prepared in accordance with this method, and thermoplastic compositions comprising the polycarbonate nanocomposites. Also disclosed are polycarbonate compositions comprising the nanomaterial.

Polycarbonate composition comprising nanomaterials

Polycarbonate nanocomposites comprising a polycarbonate matrix having non-oxidized metal nanoparticles dispersed therein are disclosed. The polycarbonate nanocomposite is produced by a process comprising forming a reaction mixture comprising a dihydroxy compound, an activated carbonate, a metal precursor, and a solvent; and in-situ polymerizing the reaction mixture to form a nanocomposite comprising a polycarbonate matrix and metal nanoparticles dispersed therein. The metal precursor comprises a metal selected from a specified group. The nanocomposites have improved mechanical, optical, electrical and/or magnetic properties. Also disclosed are articles formed from such polycarbonate nanocomposites.

Polycarbonate nanocomposites

Methods of forming nanocomposites comprising a polymer and metal nanoparticles are disclosed. The nanoparticles are disposed within a matrix of the polymer. In particular, the nanoparticles are formed in situ in an extruder. The methods comprise providing a reaction mixture comprising a polymer, a metal precursor, and a solvent and extruding the reaction mixture to form a polymer nanocomposite. The methods overcome nanoparticle dispersion issues arising from melt blending processes.

Methods of preparing polymer nanocomposites

A method of making a resin composition comprises melt mixing a first polymer comprising a polyamide powder or a polyester powder with a fluoropolymer at a temperature below a softening temperature of the fluoropolymer to form a first melt blend; fibrillating the fluoropolymer in the first melt blend to form a fibrillar network in the first melt blend; and melt mixing the first melt blend having the fibrillar network with i) a poly(arylene ether) and a compatibilizing agent or ii) a poly(arylene ether) and a reaction product of the poly(arylene) and a compatibilizing agent.

Poly(arylene ether) compositions and methods of making the same

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