Fracture toughness and failure mechanism of graphene based epoxy composites

By S. Chandrasekaran, N. Sato, Folke Johannes Tölle, Rolf Mülhaupt, B. Fiedler, K. Schulte. 2014

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Subfields: Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• Carbon nanotube- and graphene-reinforced multiphase polymeric composites: review on their properties and applications (2019, background): “5 wt% thermally treated rGO, MWCNT and GNPs enhanced the fracture toughness of epoxy nanocomposites by 40, 8 and 24%, respectively [144].”
• Aligning multilayer graphene flakes with an external electric field to improve multifunctional properties of epoxy nanocomposites (2015, background): “graphene oxide (GO), thermally expanded or reduced GO, chemically-modified graphene, or graphene foam) [4,6,29,30,41–47].”
• Cracks, microcracks and fracture in polymer structures: Formation, detection, autonomic repair (2016, background): “When it comes to fillers with layered structures such as nano-clay or silicates (layered), crack-deflection, microcracking and plastic void growth are the major toughening mechanisms [314,315] and with the addition of graphene, crack deflection and crack pinning has been reported [316].”