Toughening of a brittle thermosetting polymer: Effects of reinforcement particle size and volume fraction

By Rahul Singh, M. Zhang, D. Chan. 2002

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Effects of particle size, particle/matrix interface adhesion and particle loading on mechanical properties of particulate–polymer composites (2008, background): “5 lm and 100 nm aluminum particles added to polyester [74].”
Mechanical properties of epoxy nanocomposites using titanium dioxide as reinforcement – A review (2015, background): “Several research groups [15–19] already shown that nanofillers (metallic or inorganic type) can be considered to be an excellent candidate to reinforce the polymeric matrices, namely EP resins, of several composite materials, owing to their excellent mechanical, thermal and electrical properties [20”
Fracture mechanisms of epoxy-based ternary composites filled with rigid-soft particles (2012, background): “In comparison, rigid micro- and nano-fillers can improve the fracture toughness, stiffness and even strength of epoxy resins simultaneously [7–10].”
Sliding wear behavior of epoxy containing nano-Al2O3 particles with different pretreatments (2004, background): “[20] considered that crack front trapping is the primary extrinsic toughening mechanism involved in”
Nanocomposites in context (2005, background): “[9] studied the variation of fracture toughness of polyester resin due to the addition of aluminum particles of 20, 3.”