Exceptionally thermally conductive and electrical insulating multilaminar aligned silicone rubber flexible composites with highly oriented and dispersed filler network by mechanical shearing

Most of the present studies of filler network structure basically stay in some phenomenological descriptions and classical electron microscopes are restricted by conventional 2-D imaging.

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Bio-inspired Graphene-enhanced Thermally Conductive Elastic Silicone Rubber as Drag Reduction Material

Journal of Bionic Engineering ◽

10.1016/s1672-6529(16)60384-0 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 130-140 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Limei Tian ◽

E Jin ◽

Haoran Mei ◽

Qingpeng Ke ◽

Ziyuan Li ◽

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Keyword(s):

Drag Reduction ◽

Silicone Rubber ◽

Thermally Conductive

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Flexible thermally conductive and electrically insulating silicone rubber composite films with BNNS@Al2O3 fillers

Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials ◽

10.1007/s42114-021-00208-1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 36-50

Author(s):

Han Yan ◽

Xiaojun Dai ◽

Kunpeng Ruan ◽

Sijie Zhang ◽

Xuetao Shi ◽

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Keyword(s):

Silicone Rubber ◽

Composite Films ◽

Rubber Composite ◽

Thermally Conductive

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Pull-out resistance of shape memory alloy nickel-titanium ribbons embedded in silicone matrix for development of flexible composites

Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures ◽

10.1177/1045389x20957106 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1045389X2095710

Author(s):

Gleryston Thiago Gomes da Silva ◽

Estephanie Nobre Dantas Grassi ◽

Wanderley Ferreira de Amorim ◽

Carlos José de Araújo

Keyword(s):

Shape Memory ◽

Silicone Rubber ◽

Smart Materials ◽

Flexible Structures ◽

Scanning Calorimetry ◽

Adhesion Promoter ◽

Niti Wire ◽

Flexible Composites ◽

Pull Out ◽

Silicone Matrix

Active flexible composites can be developed through the coupling of silicone matrices and smart materials such as NiTi shape memory alloys (SMA). This work evaluates the mechanical behavior and adhesion of NiTi SMA ribbons embedded in a silicone matrix for the development of active flexible composites. Ribbons with cross-section of 0.15 × 0.8 mm2 were cold-rolled from superelastic NiTi wires with 0.4 mm in diameter. These ribbons were heat treated to either obtain characteristics of superelasticity (SE) or shape memory effect (SME) at room temperature. Silicone, NiTi wire, and ribbons were characterized by Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA), and tensile tests. Adhesion between SMA ribbons and silicone matrix was evaluated with pull-out tests. The use of an adhesion promoter proved to be indispensable to ensure a good pull-out strength and shear stress at the NiTi ribbon and silicone interface. A silicone rubber cylinder with an embedded SME ribbon was built to evaluate the functionality of the NiTi ribbon in the development of flexible structures, which was demonstrated by the resistive heating and deformation of the SMA/silicone rubber composite.

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