Framework for nanocomposites

By R. Vaia, H. Daniel Wagner. 2004

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Materials and material development are fundamental to our very culture. We even ascribe major historical periods of our society to materials such as the stone age, bronze age, iron age, steel age (the industrial revolution), polymer age, silicon age, and silica age (the telecoms revolution). This reflects how important materials are to us. We have, and always will, strive to understand and modify the world around us and the stuff of which it is made. As the 21st century unfolds, it is becoming more apparent that the next technological frontiers will be opened not through a better understanding and application of a particular material, but rather by understanding and optimizing material combinations and their synergistic function, hence blurring the distinction between a material and a functional device comprised of distinct materials.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• Recent Advances in Fabrication and Characterization of Graphene-Polymer Nanocomposites (2012, background): “The advantage of polymer-nanocomposite is to provide value-added properties to the pristine polymer without sacrificing its processability, inherent mechanical properties and light weight [1,2].”
• Nanocomposites in context (2005, background): “The outstanding thermal and electric properties combined with their high specific stiffness and strength, and very large aspect ratios have stimulated the development of nanotube-reinforced composites for both structural and functional applications [36,39,40].”
• Characterizing and Modeling Mechanical Properties of Nanocomposites-Review and Evaluation (2010, background): “The nanoscale reinforcements over traditional fillers have the following advantages [5]: 1.”
• NANOTUBES AS POLYMERS (2009, unknown): “Moreover, with molecular-scale fillers of high aspect ratio, more of the polymer matrix is associated with the filler and less weight is associated with the non-reinforced polymer matrix [185,186].”
• Joining prepreg composite interfaces with aligned carbon nanotubes (2008, background): “The hybrid composite would not be considered a nanocomposite (comprised solely of CNTs and a matrix) [1,8,9], but rather a nano-engineered hybrid composite.”