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Breakthrough FusePly Technology for Reliable Composite Bonding

October 26, 2023 |

Learn about a technology that offers the potential to build reliable and robust bonded composite parts through the creation of covalently-bonded structures at bondline interface.

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Surface preparation is a critical step in composite structure bonding and plays a major role in determining the final bonding performance. Solvay has developed FusePly, a breakthrough technology that offers the potential to build reliable and robust bonded composite parts through the creation of covalently-bonded structures at bondline interface. FusePly technology meets the manufacturing challenges faced by aircraft builders and industrial bonding users looking for improved performance, buildrates and lightweighting. In this webinar, you will discover FusePly's key benefits as well as processing and data.

Agenda:

  • Surface preparation challenges for composite bonding
  • FusePly technology overview
  • Properties and performance data
Presenter 1

Presenter 1:

Yiqiang Zhao

Senior Research Scientist

Yiqiang Zhao, Ph.D. has over 14 years of product and technology development experience in aerospace metal and composite bonding with Cytec/Solvay. His expertise covers aerospace structural bonding adhesives, thermoset chemistry and formulation, thermoplastic composite joining, nanotechnology, polymer surface/interface and coatings, and advanced materials analysis. Yiqiang is an expert in surface preparation for metal and composite bonding, chromate and non-chromate bonding primers, corrosion protection, and the structure-property relationship of materials.

Presenter 2

Presenter 2:

Cédric Batisson

Product Manager, Adhesives

Cédric Batisson has over 19 years experience in the aerospace and chemical industries with engineering, manufacturing, business development and toll manufacturing management roles spanning over three continents. He joined Solvay in 2006 and is currently the product manager for Solvay's adhesive portfolio across the aerospace, automotive and defense markets. Cédric holds a master's degree in chemistry and chemical engineering.

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