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  • Effect of Carbon Fiber Surface Chemistry on Resin Impregnation in VaRTM Process: A Molecular Dynamics Study

  • Su Hyun Lim*, Wonvin Kim*, Wonki Kim*, Junho Lee*, Seong Su Kim*†

  • * Department of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST

  • VaRTM 공정에서 탄소섬유 표면의 화학적 특성에 따른 수지 함침에 관한 분자동역학 전산모사

  • 임수현* · 김원빈* · 김원기* · 이준호* · 김성수*†

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Correspondence to

  • Seong Su Kim

  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST

  • E-mail: seongsukim@kaist.ac.kr