Mechanical and physical properties of epoxy composites reinforced by vapor grown carbon nanofibers

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• 作者：Young-Kuk Choi ; Koh-ichi Sugimoto ; Sung-Moo Song ; Yasuo Gotoh ; Yutaka Ohkoshi and Morinobu Endo
• 关键词：Vapor grown carbon ; Mixing ; Scanning electron microscopy ; Thermodynamic properties
• 刊名：Carbon
• 出版年：2005
• 期刊代码：10_00086223
• 类别：ms
• 出版时间：2005
• 卷：43
• 期：10
• 页码：2199-2208
• 文件大小：614 K

摘要

Epoxy/vapor grown carbon nanofiber composites (VGCF) with different proportions of VGCF were fabricated by the in situ process.

The VGCFs were well dispersed in both of the low and high viscosity epoxy matrices, although occasional small aggregates were observed in a high viscosity epoxy of 20 wt.%. The dynamic mechanical behavior of the nanocomposite sheets was studied. The storage modulus and the glass transition temperature (T_g) of the polymer were increased by the incorporation of VGCFs.

The electrical and mechanical properties of the epoxy–VGCFs nanocomposite sheets with different weight percentages of VGCFs were discussed. The results were that both had maximum tensile strength and Young’s modulus at 5 wt.%for both materials and reduced the fracture strain with increasing filler content. The electrical resistivity was decreased with the addition of filler content. Mechanical, electrical and thermal properties of low viscosity epoxy composites were resulted better than that of the high viscosity composites.