Original Article
  • Thermal Response and Mechanical Properties of Glass Fiber Reinforced PEI with Low h-BN Content

  • Sung Woo Hue*, Jin Woo Song*, Sang Yup Kim*†

  • * Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sogang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  • 저함량 h-BN이 첨가된 유리섬유 강화 PEI의 열응답 및 기계적 특성

  • 허성우* · 송진우* · 김상엽*†

  • This article is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Correspondence to

  • Sang Yup Kim

  • * Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sogang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  • E-mail: sangyupkim@sogang.ac.kr