碳纳米片-碳纳米管复合材料的一步合成及其场 发射性质研究

利用等离子体化学气相沉积技术, 在引入Ti过渡层后的Co膜表面一步制备出碳纳米片-碳纳米管复合材料, 研究了Co膜厚度对复合材料形貌及场发射性质的影响. 当Co薄膜厚度为11 nm时, 得到了垂直基片定向生长的碳纳米管和碳纳米片复合物, 此时, 碳纳米片分布在碳纳米管的管壁上和管的顶端, 样品的场发射性能最佳.     

Dynamic mechanical characterization of PMR polyimide/carbon fiber composites modified by fiber coating with silicones

Viscous and elastomeric silicones have been applied as interlayers to carbon fibers in order to develop a tougher, micro-crack resistant, thermally stable polyimide (PMR-15) composite. Carbon fiber is continuously coated with very high molecular weight polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and polyvinyl-methylsiloxane (PVMS). Dynamic mechanical properties of the composites have been determined and compared with uncoated carbon fiber reinforced PMR-15 polyimide composites. The presence of the interlayer is shown by the appearance of a new relaxation peak. The peak temperature is found to be a good indication of the degree of the cure of the silicone elastomer. Comparison of the storage moduli of uncoated and coated carbon fiber composites at the service temperature range of the composites indicates that the presence of the silicone interlayer affects the shear moduli of the composites. Apparent activation energy of the α transition of the matrix in the modified composites varies with the amount of interlayer and composition in concert with the impact strength.     

Damage Mechanisms of Hierarchical Composites: Computational Modelling

Computational studies of damage mechanisms in hierarchical composites, including biocomposites, nanoparticle reinforced polymer composites and other materials are discussed. Different methods of the analysis of hierarchical effects in the multiscale composites are demonstrated, among them, hierarchical fiber bundle model, 3D multiscale finite element models, analytical studies. Considering wood as a gradient, cellular material with layered composite cell walls, one analyzed the effect of wood structure on damage resistance of wood. The influence of nanoparticles distribution in unidirectional polymer matrix composites with secondary nanoreinforcement on the strength and damage resistance of the composites is demonstrated. The concept of nanostructuring of interfaces and grain boundaries as an important reserve of the improvement of the materials properties is formulated.     

Theory,preparation, properties and catalysis application in 2D graphynes-based materials

Carbon has three hybridization forms of sp⁻, sp²⁻ and sp³⁻, and the combination of different forms can obtain different kinds of carbon allotropes, such as diamond, carbon nanotubes, fullerene, graphynes (GYs) and graphdiyne (GDY). Among them, the GDY molecule is a single-layer two-dimensional (2D) planar structure material with highly π-conjugation formed by sp⁻ and sp²⁻ hybridization. GDY has a carbon atom ring composed of benzene ring and acetylene, which makes GDY have a uniformly distributed pore structure. In addition, GDY planar material have some slight wrinkles, which makes GDY have better self-stability than other 2D planar materials. The excellent properties of GDY make it attract the attention of researchers. Therefore, GDY is widely used in chemical catalysis, electronics, communications, clean energy and composite materials. This paper summarizes the recent progress of GDY research, including structure, preparation, properties and application of GDY in the field of catalysts.     

碳纳米管/金刚石复合材料的场发射特性

采用微波烧结方法制备了碳纳米管/金刚石复合材料。将碳纳米管和纳米金刚石粉末混合后研磨压片,然后在微波等离子气相沉积系统中采用微波烧结。利用扫描电镜对复合材料的表面形貌和微观结构进行了分析,结果显示碳纳米管比较均匀地分散于复合材料中,并在表面形成了发射微尖。利用二极管结构在动态真空室中对复合材料的场发射特性进行了研究,复合材料有较好的场发射特性,电流密度接近15mA/cm2。     

Electromagnetic properties and microwave absorption properties of BaTiO3-carbonyl iron composite in S and C bands

BaTiO₃ powders are prepared by sol-gel method. The carbonyl iron powder is prepared via thermal decomposition of iron pentacarbonyl. Then BaTiO₃-carbonyl iron composite with different mixture ratios was prepared using the as-prepared material. The structure, morphology, and properties of the composites are characterized using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and a network analyzer. The complex permittivity and reflection loss of the composites have been measured at different microwave frequencies in S- and C-bands employing vector network analyzer model PNA 3629D vector. The effect of the mass ratio of BaTiO₃/carbonyl iron on the microwave loss properties of the composites is investigated. A possible microwave absorbing mechanism of BaTiO₃-carbonyl iron composite has been proposed. The BaTiO₃-carbonyl iron composite can find applications in suppression of electromagnetic interference, and reduction of radar signature.     

Dielectric resonance,local field distribution,and optical response in 3D resonant composites

We extend the Greens function formalism in a binary 2D composite to 3D. Using the formalism, we investigate the dielectric resonances, local-field distribution, and effective linear optical responses for one-bond, two-bond and three-bond clusters, as well as for various disordered composites. Due to the different values of Greens function in 2D and 3D, for the same cluster, the values of the dielectric resonances in 3D are smaller than those in 2D, but the fields are more localized than those in 2D. The sum rule of dielectric resonance in three-component composites is extended to d dimensions. For the same resonance, the intensity of the local-field in 3D is also weaker than that in the 2D case, but the fields are more localized than those in 2D. For the disordered composites in 2D and 3D, inverse participation ratios (IPR) with q = 2 are used to represent the localization of the field. When we increase the concentration of impurity bonds, a blue shift of IPR peaks occurs in 3D, while in 2D, these peaks are very stable. Finally, both for 2D and 3D disordered composites, the absorption range broadens with increasing impurity concentration, and a red shift of the absorption peak is observed in 3D.Received: 19 August 2004, Published online: 14 December 2004PACS: 77.84.Lf Composite materials - 42.65.-k Nonlinear optics     

Protein adsorption resistant surface on polymer composite based on 2D- and 3D-controlled grafting of phospholipid moieties

To prepare the biocompatible surface, a phosphorylcholine (PC) group was introduced on this hydroxyl group generated by surface hydrolysis on the polymer composite composed of polyethylene (PE) and poly (vinyl acetate) (PVAc) prepared by supercritical carbon dioxide. Two different procedures such as two-dimensional (2D) modification and three-dimensional (3D) modification were applied to obtain the steady biocompatible surface. 2D modification was that PC groups were directly anchored on the surface of the polymer composite. 3D modification was that phospholipid polymer was grafted from the surface of the polymer composite by surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization (SI-ATRP) of 2-methacryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine (MPC). The surfaces were characterized by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, dynamic water contact angle measurements, and atomic force microscope. The effects of the poly(MPC) chain length on the protein adsorption resistivity were investigated. The protein adsorption on the polymer composite surface with PC groups modified by 2D or 3D modification was significantly reduced as compared with that on the unmodified PE. Further, the amount of protein adsorbed on the 3D modified surface that is poly(MPC)-grafted surface decreased with an increase in the chain length of the poly(MPC). The surface with an arbitrary structure and the characteristic can be constructed by using 2D and 3D modification. We conclude that the polymer composites of PE/PVAc with PC groups on the surface are useful for fabricating biomedical devices due to their good mechanical and surface properties.     

Interfacial interaction in carbon fiber/thermoplastic composites

This work was undertaken in order to increase the understanding of the mechanism responsible for fiber/matrix interaction in carbon fiber/thermoplastic composite. From results of previous study on carbon fiber/PEEK composite, which suggested that the formation of the fiber/ matrix interaction was primarily related to a chemisorption mechanism, a study was done of the conditions required to obtain efficient fiber/matrix interaction in PA-12 and PP/carbon fiber composites. The interest in studying carbon fiber composite based on PP and PA-12 was that these two matrices are very different in terms of reactivity, polyamide having many more reactive groups than polypropylene. As expected, due to the non-reactive chemical structure of the polypropylene, fiber/matrix interaction in carbon fiber/PP composite occurred only when the matrix was thermally degraded, i.e. when the composite was molded at high temperature or under long residence time at the melt temperature. For the carbon fiber/PA-12 composite, strong fiber/matrix interaction occurred readily at relatively low molding temperature, i.e. well before thermal degradation of the matrix. It was also found that the short beam shear strength in these composites seems to evolve with molding temperature, and a maximum interfacial strength was observed at a molding temperature corresponding to the thermal degradation of the matrix. This indicates that although matrix degradation often results in strong reduction in the composite performance, some matrix degradation can be beneficial in terms of interfacial mechanical properties. Finally, this work demonstrated that while the formation of fiber/matrix interaction seems to be primarily related to a chemisorption mechanism, the contribution of interphase crystallinity to the interfacial strength is not negligible. In fact, interfacial crystallinity was found to be essential to ensure optimum interfacial strength.     

Relation between interfacial shear strength and compressive strength of carbon fiber/epoxy resin composite strands

The mechanism with which the fiber-matrix interfacial strength exerts its influence on the compressive strength of fiber reinforced composites has been studied by measuring the axial compressive strength of carbon fiber/epoxy resin unidirectional composite strands having different levels of interfacial shear strength. The composite strands are used for experiments in order to investigate the compressive strength which is not affected by the delamination taking place at a weak interlayer of the laminated composites. The interfacial strength is varied by applying various degrees of liquid-phase surface treatment to the fibers. The efficiency of the compressive strength of the fibers utilized in the strength of the composite strands is estimated by measuring the compressive strength of the single carbon filaments with a micro-compression test. The compressive strength of the composite strands does not increase monotonically with increasing interfacial shear strength but showes lower values at higher interfacial shear strengths. With increasing interfacial shear strength, the suppression of the interfacial failure in the misaligned fiber region increases the compressive strength, while at higher interfacial shear strengths, the enhancement of the crack sensitivity decreases the compressive strength.     

Continuum modelling of spherical and spheroidal carbon onions

Carbon nanostructures are of considerable interest owing to their unique mechanical and electronic properties. Experimentally, a wide variety of different shapes are obtained, including both spherical and spheroidal carbon onions. A spheroid is an ellipsoid with two major axes equal and the term onion refers to a multi-layered composite structure. Assuming structures of either concentric spherical or ellipsoidal fullerenes comprising n layers, this paper examines the interaction energy between adjacent shells for both spherical and spheroidal carbon onions. The Lennard-Jones potential together with the continuum approximation is employed to determine the equilibrium spacing between two adjacent shells. We also determine analytical formulae for the potential energy which may be expressed either in terms of hypergeometric or Legendre functions. We find that the equilibrium spacing between shells decreases for shells further out from the inner core owing to the decreasing curvature of the outer shells of a concentric structure.     

Plasma-polymerized organosilicones as engineered interlayers in glass fiber/polyester composites

The plasma polymerization technique was used to surface modify glass fibers in order to form a strong but tough link between the glass fiber and the polyester matrix, and enable an efficient stress transfer from the polymer matrix to the fiber. Plasma polymer films of hexamethyldisiloxane, vinyltriethoxysilane, and tetravinylsilane in a mixture with oxygen gas were engineered as compatible interlayers for the glass fiber/polyester composite. The interlayers of controlled physico-chemical properties were tailored using the deposition conditions with regard to the elemental composition, chemical structure, and Young's modulus in order to improve adhesion bonding at the interlayer/glass and polyester/interlayer interfaces and tune the cross-linking of the plasma polymer. The optimized interlayer enabled a 6.5-fold increase of the short-beam strength compared to the untreated fibers. The short-beam strength of GF/polyester composite with the pp-TVS/O₂ interlayer was 32% higher than that with industrial sizing developed for fiber-reinforced composites with a polyester matrix.     

Fabrication and optical properties of 3D composite photonic crystals of core-shell structures

Three-dimensional (3D) composite colloidal photonic crystals with SiO₂ core and ZnO shell were fabricated on borosilicate glass (BSG) substrate by a two-stage deposition method. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) measurements show that both the pre-deposited SiO₂ and SiO₂/ZnO core-shell structures are oriented with their (1 1 1) axes parallel to the substrates. Optical measurement reveals that the periodic arrays exhibit a photonic band gap in the (1 1 1) direction. The optical properties of SiO₂/ZnO core-shell structures strongly depend on the size dispersions of colloidal spheres and the intrinsic defects in the sample.     

Quantum mechanics simulation and experimental study of adhesive interaction and aggregation of carbon-silicate nanoparticles—reinforcing fillers of polymer composites

Nanoparticles are widely used as polymer composite-reinforcing additives—fillers. Understanding the interaction mechanisms and regularities responsible for nanoparticle aggregation is of great significance for elucidating the nature of reinforcing of polymer composites. The paper reports on quantum mechanics calculations and full-scale experimental study of adhesive interaction of carbon and silicate adsorption complexes (nanomodels of active filler particles of polymer composites). The quantum mechanics approach allowed describing the adhesive properties of particle aggregates reasoning from nanoscopic structure of their surface. The quantum mechanics data were checked for adequacy on schungite—a natural mineral containing carbon and silicate. Schungite microparticles were milled to nanosizes by colloidal grinding in various disperse liquid media (alcohol, acetone, water) and the structure and properties of aggregated schungite micro- and nanoparticles were studied; fractal analysis of their surface was performed. It is found that smaller aggregates of silicate and carbon particles with higher surface fractal dimension are formed in colloidal grinding with small molecular sizes of disperse media (in our case, ethanol or methanol) and this agrees with the data predicted by quantum mechanics calculations.     

Photonic bands, gap maps, and intrinsic losses in three-component 2D photonic crystal slabs

We obtain the photonic bands and intrinsic losses for the triangular lattice three-component two- dimensional （2D） photonic crystal （PhC） slabs by expanding the electromagnetic field on the basis of waveguide modes of an effective homogeneous waveguide. The introduction of the third component into the 2D PhC slabs influences the photonic band structure and the intrinsic losses of the system. We examine the dependences of the band gap width and gap edge position on the interlayer dielectric constant and interlayer thickness. It is found that the gap edges shift to lower frequencies and the intrinsic losses of each band decrease with the increasing interlayer thickness or dielectric constant. During the design of the real PhC system, the effect of unintentional native oxide surface layer on the optical properties of 2D PhC slabs has to be taken into consideration. At the same time, intentional oxidization of macroporous PhC structure can be utilized to optimize the design.     

Three-dimensional structure of polystyrene colloidal crystal by synchrotron radiation X-ray phase-contrast computed tomography

Colloidal crystal with long-range ordered structure has attracted great attention for their applications in various fields. Although perfect colloidal crystals have been achieved by some fabrications for utilization, little is known about their exact structures and internal defects. In this study, we use synchrotron radiation (SR) phase-contrast computed tomography (CT) to noninvasively access the internal structure of polystyrene (PS) colloidal crystals in three dimensions (3D). The phase-attenuation duality Paganin algorithm phase retrieval was employed to achieve a satisfactory contrast and outline of the spheres. After CT reconstruction, the positions of individual PS particles and structural defects are identified in three dimensions, and the local crystal structure is revealed. Further quantitative analysis of the void system in colloidal crystal illustrates that single voids can be mostly attributed to tetrahedron void of sphere close packing, but the interconnected voids with large volume induce a sphere volume fraction of 59.39 % that reflects a metastable glass behavior of colloidal crystal arrangement. The void orientation result reveals that the 3D close-packing difficulty mainly lies in the stacking of interlayer.     

A microstructure model for finite-element simulation of 3D rectangular braided composite under ballistic penetration

The non-delamination feature of 3D braided composites under transverse impact leads to their potential application in the field of ballistic impact protection. One of the effective ways to investigate the ballistic impact damage of the 3D braided composite is to simulate the penetration process by numerical method, such as finite element method. However the numerical simulations of ballistic impact damage are seldom conducted based on the microstructure level. This paper presents a microstructure model for simulating ballistic impact damage of 4-step 3D braided rectangular composite penetrated by a rigid steel projectile. The microstructure model is based on the same yarn spatial configuration with that of the braided composite and also on the assumptions of the braided yarns appear straight inside the braided preform, bending and then change to other directions only at the surface. The ballistic perforation of the braided composite specimen by a cylindrical-conically steel projectile has been simulated with finite element method. The comparisons between FEA and experimental results show the validity of the microstructure model, especially for the penetration resistance and impact damage of the composite. Compared with the other continuum models of the braided composite, the microstructure model can simulate impact damage more precisely. The velocity history and acceleration history of projectile, and impact damage development of the composite in FEM simulation indicate the different damage and energy absorption mechanisms of the braided composite compared with those of laminated composite.     

Co-effects of graphene oxide sheets and single wall carbon nanotubes on mechanical properties of cement

The enhancement of mechanical properties of cement composites by a carbon nanomaterial is an important topic. However, the co-effect of two (or more) carbon nanomaterials on the mechanical properties of cement has not been explored. In this paper, it was found that the mixture of graphene oxide (GO) sheets and single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) exhibited an excellent co-effect, leading to 72.7% increase in bending strength of cement, which is much larger than the strength enhancements of 51.2% by GO and 26.3% by SWCNTs. Furthermore, it was demonstrated that the bending strength of cement composite materials with GO and SWCNTs is proportional to the sizes of crystal SiO₂ particles.     

Electromechanical response of 2-2 layered piezoelectric composites: A micromechanical model based on the asymptotic homogenization method

A micromechanical model based on the asymptotic homogenization technique has been developed to predict the complete elastic, dielectric and piezoelectric properties of a general 2-2 layered piezoelectric composite where the constituent phases are elastically anisotropic and piezoelectrically active. Two classes of layered piezoelectric composites (i.e. longitudinally and transversely layered) are considered in two widely different ceramic- and polymer-based systems and their effective properties are obtained in the limits of both large-volume (i.e. bulk) and small-volume (i.e. thin-film) systems. It is demonstrated that: (i) in the bulk, ceramic–ceramic layered composite system, the elastic, piezoelectric, and dielectric properties of the composites vary linearly with volume fraction of the second phase, while in the bulk ceramic–polymer layered composite system, the corresponding properties vary non-linearly with volume fraction of the second phase; (ii) in the prismatic (thin-film) layered piezoelectric composite system, the non-vanishing, effective elastic, piezoelectric and dielectric properties vary linearly with the volume fraction of the second phase for both the longitudinally and transversely layered composite structures in the ceramic–ceramic and the ceramic–polymer composite systems; (iii) the ceramic–polymer piezoelectric layered composites that incorporate a low density polymeric phase with lower acoustic impedance generally exhibit enhanced piezoelectric coupling constants and lowered acoustic impedance; (iv) the longitudinally layered composites exhibit higher piezoelectric coupling constants and lower acoustic impedance compared to that of the transversely layered composites; and (v) the best combination of properties for applications such as hydrophones (i.e. the highest piezoelectric coupling constants and the lowest acoustic impedance) is obtained in the ceramic–polymer, longitudinally layered, thin-film, piezoelectric composites.     

On the macroscopic response,microstructure evolution,and macroscopic stability of short-fiber-reinforced elastomers at finite strains: II – Representative examples

In Part I of this work, we presented a homogenization-based constitutive model for the overall behavior of reinforced elastomers consisting of aligned, spheroidal particles distributed randomly in an incompressible, hyperelastic matrix. In particular, we provided analytical estimates for the effective stored-energy functions of the composites, as well as for the associated average particle rotations under finite deformations. The rotation of the particles is found to be very sensitive to the specific loading conditions applied, and is such that the particles tend to align themselves with the largest tensile direction. In addition, we obtained corresponding formulae for the detection of macroscopic instabilities in these composites. With the objective of illustrating the key features of the analytical results presented in Part I, we conduct here a more detailed study of these results for several representative values of the microstructural and loading parameters, as well as matrix properties. More specifically, this study deals with neo-Hookean and Gent elastomers reinforced with spheroidal particles of prolate and oblate shapes with various aspect ratios and volume fractions, subjected to aligned and non-aligned macroscopic loading conditions. In addition, to assess the accuracy of the model, we compare our results with corresponding finite element results available from the literature for the special case of spherical particles, and good agreement is found. For non-spherical particles, the results indicate that the possible rotation of the particles has a major influence on the overall response of the elastomeric composites. Furthermore, it is found that the composite may develop macroscopic shear localization instabilities, as a consequence of the geometric softening induced by the sudden rotation – or flopping – of the particles, when a sufficiently large amount of compression is applied along the long axes of the particles.