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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"hybrid nanocomposites"”.
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Piezoresistive Hybrid Nanocomposites for Strain and Damage Sensing: Experimental and Numerical Analysis
… functional applications as fillers for polymer nanocomposites.</p> <p>The piezoresistive behavior of these nanocomposites makes them ideal for sensing applications. Besides, hybrid nanocomposites with multiple fillers like carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphite nanoplatelets (GNPs) are known to …
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Phosphorus-Containing Polymers, Their Blends, and Hybrid Nanocomposites with Poly(Hydroxy Ether), Metal Chlorides, and Silica Colloids
… had earlier been demonstrated to form complexes/nanocomposites with phosphorus-containing poly(arylene ethers). It has been possible to prepare transparent films with 100 mol% of metal chlorides, based upon the phosphonyl groups. The films are transparent, unlike the opaque polysulfone control …
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A Computational and Experimental Study on the Electrical and Thermal Properties of Hybrid Nanocomposites based on Carbon Nanotubes and Graphite Nanoplatelets
… in determining the electrical properties of nanocomposites comprising CNTs and GNPs. To assess its importance, in this dissertation this phenomenon is incorporated into simulations by utilizing tools from statistical physics. A qualitative parametric study was carried out to demonstrate its …
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Synthesis, characterization and modeling of interphases created between titanium dioxide nanotubes and various layers in biological, physical and mechanical systems
… and the manufacturing of TNTs based multilayered nanocomposites. The final target of this investigation is the application of the titanium dioxide nanotubes in three main directions: mechanical systems, implantology and solar cells. The first part of this study consists in a bibliographic …
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Development and Characterization of Piezoresistive Nanocomposites for Sensing Applications
<p>Carbonnanotube basedhybrid nanocomposites are known to exhibit remarkable electrical and mechanical properties with many potentials in strain and damage sensing applications. In this work, we fabricate hybrid nanocomposites with carbon nanotube (CNT) sheet and graphene nanoplatelets (GNP) as …
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Single wall carbon nanotubes as viscosity modifiers in polypropylene matrix nanocomposites
… modifiers in the polypropylene matrix of nanocomposites. To create nanocomposites which did not demonstrate increased low shear rate viscosity when nanotubes were added into the polymer melt, this work focused on modifying the sidewall profile of the SWNTs and manipulating their …
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Mechanical and Electrical Characterization of Hybrid Carbon Nanotube Sheet-Graphene Nanocomposites for Sensing Applications
… <p>In this work, carbon nanotube sheet- epoxy nanocomposites with the matrix modified with various contents of coarse and fine graphene nanoplatelets are fabricated. The addition of a secondary filler results in improvements of both electrical and mechanical properties. In addition, with the …
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Nanostructured thermoset resins and nanocomposites containing hyperbranched blockcopolyether liquid rubbers and organophilic layered silicates
… to epoxy resins. The resulting epoxy “hybrid nanocomposites” afforded improved toughness showing no reduction in stiffness and glass temperature. An optimized hybrid system was employed in a resin transfer moulding process to prepare carbon fibre reinforced composites containing …
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Carbon-based polymer nanocomposites for 3D-printing
In this PhD project, novel polymer nanocomposites are developed with the aim to increase the performances of 3D-printed parts obtained by fused deposition modeling (FDM). The attention is focused on carbon-based nanomaterials incorporated into an acrylonitrile–butadiene–styrene (ABS) polymer by a …
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Hypervelocity Impact Analysis of Hybrid Nanocomposite Sensors for Inflatable Space Structures
… This work presents fabrication and testing of hybrid nanocomposites with carbon nanotubes (CNT) and coarse graphene nanoplatelets (GNP) as fillers and flexible epoxy matrix, that are proposed to be used for sensing the impact damage by MMOD in space inflatable structures. CNT and GNP were …
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Thin films of non-peripherally substituted liquid crystalline phthalocyanines A
… to 99.9 % pure hydrogen sulfide gas to produce hybrid nanocomposites consisting of lead sulphide quantum dots embedded in the analogous metal free phthalocyanine matrix. Trapping of charge carriers caused hysteresis in the current-voltage characteristics of the film on interdigitated gold …
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The Investigation of Inorganic Co Based ReRAM Devices and Organic Cu Doped PANI-CSA Top Electrode Based ReRAM Devices
… can be used both inorganics, organics and even hybrid nanocomposites. Besides inorganic ReRAM device, we also fabricated an organic ReRAM device with the structure Cu doped PANI-CSA/O-AA/Al. We have manufactured ReRAM based on Cu-doped PANI-CSA polymer electrode, O-AA as the polymer solid …
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Synthesis of Multifunctional One-dimensional and Two-dimensional Highly Conductive Nanomaterials for Charge Storage Applications
… To improve the dielectric performance of the nanocomposites, a hybrid structure, containing AgNW and MnO2NW, was utilized to not only enhance the dielectric constant but also minimize the dielectric loss. The fabricated AgNW:MnO2NW (2.0:1.0 vol %) hybrid nanocomposite showed a high dielectric …