Carbon Nanotube-Based Multifunctional Polymer Nanocomposites

Pandey, Gaurav; Thostenson, Erik T.

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“…mechanical, thermal and electrical) make them excellent functional fillers for thermoplastics. 23,24 Their high aspect ratio brings the possibility of significant reinforcement of polymer matrices at very low loadings. Limited solubility with solvents and strong van der Waals interactions between CNTs leads to strongly bound agglomerates, the disentanglement of which has hindered development and application of composites of polymers and MWCNTs.…”

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Functionalisation of MWCNTs with poly(lauryl acrylate) polymerised by Cu(0)-mediated and RAFT methods

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Functionalisation of MWCNTs with poly(lauryl acrylate) polymerised by Cu(0)-mediated and RAFT methods

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“…With recent advances in microwave engineering and with the advent of picoseconds rise time and gigahertz frequency pulses, TDR has been used to probe much smaller structures. An example is the use of localized carbon nanotube networks for micro-crack detection using TDR [18,19]. Whereas micro-cracking damage is gradual, the present study deals with delamination damage in composites which are sudden and are mostly inside the composite structure and hence it's not visible from outside.…”

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Electric Time Domain Reflectometry Sensors for Non-Invasive Structural Health Monitoring of Glass Fiber Composites

Pandey¹,

Thostenson

Heider³

2013

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Abstract-Time domain reflectometry (TDR) offers the advantage of distributed sensing using a single transmission line sensor. In the present study, a parallel plate type non-invasive TDR sensor for structural health monitoring (SHM) of composites has been designed, modeled and experimentally tested. Five layer unidirectional glass fiber/epoxy composite specimens are fabricated. Specimens included a damage initiator in form of a cut in the central ply. The TDR sensor detects sub-surface damage in the composite non-invasively as the effective dielectric constant of the composite decreases due to the presence of delamination cracks. Previous work done on dielectrostriction is used to model the TDR response to strain changes. Qualitative agreement between theory and experimental results for strain sensing are found.

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“…VE resins can be easily controlled in liquid forms at room temperature and provide enhanced chemical properties in comparison to other thermoset resins such as polyester or epoxy [14][15][16][17][18][19]. Recent works have shown that the addition of relatively small amounts (by weight) of nano-reinforcements (CNTs and CNFs) can significantly improve to the mechanical properties of polymer nanocomposites [4,[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]. However, the literature also shows that an optimal nano-reinforcement loading level exists such that the addition of further amounts of nano-reinforcements past this optimal level actually degrade the properties of the resulting nanocomposites.…”

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Carbon nanofiber-reinforced polymeric nanocomposites

Jang¹,

Hutchins²,

Yu³

2013

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Five vapor-grown carbon nanofiber (VGCNF) reinforced vinyl ester (VE) nanocomposite configurations were fabricated, imaged, and mechanically tested in order to obtain information on the influence and the interactions of the role of the microstructure at lower length scales on the observed continuum level properties/response. Three independent variables (the nanofiber weight fraction and two types of nanofiber mixing techniques) were chosen to be varied from low, middle, and high values at equally spaced intervals. Multiple mixing techniques were studied to gain insight into the effect of mixing on the VGCNF dispersion within the VE matrix. The point count method was used for both lower length-scale imaging techniques to provide quantitative approximations of the magnitude and the distribution of such lower length-scale features. Finally, an inverse relationship was shown to exist between the stiffness and strength properties of the resulting nanocomposites under uniaxial quasistatic compression loading.

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Carbon Nanotube-Based Multifunctional Polymer Nanocomposites

Cited by 154 publications

References 185 publications

Functionalisation of MWCNTs with poly(lauryl acrylate) polymerised by Cu(0)-mediated and RAFT methods

Functionalisation of MWCNTs with poly(lauryl acrylate) polymerised by Cu(0)-mediated and RAFT methods

Electric Time Domain Reflectometry Sensors for Non-Invasive Structural Health Monitoring of Glass Fiber Composites

Carbon nanofiber-reinforced polymeric nanocomposites

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