Fully Biobased Elastomer Composites with Mechanically Robust, Reprocessable, and Biocompatible Properties

Author(s):  
Shizhen Zhao ◽  
Hongkun Yang ◽  
Genlai Dong ◽  
Dong Wang ◽  
Thomas P. Russell
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2019 ◽  
pp. 128-138
Author(s):  
V. S. Yagubov ◽  
A. V. Shchegolkov ◽  
A. V. Shchegolkov ◽  
N. R. Memetov

Developing "smart" materials with improved both structural and functional characteristics is one of the promising areas of materials science. Measuring the electrical resistance of CNTs-modified (various mass contents) polymers and in particular, elastomers during performing several tests (compression, stretching, and torsion) at a constant current is relevant in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, aviation, and space industry. Changes in the elastomer shape under different types of testing lead to the destruction of macromolecules and the structuring of the material as a whole. Therefore, it is important to study the effect of CNTsbased modifying fillers on the elastomer. When compressing, stretching or twisting the nano-modified elastomer, along with the mutual movement of its macromolecular fragments and aggregates, the modifier particles also move, which generally determines the transport of electrons in the resulting structure and affects the physical and mechanical parameters of the composite material. To conduct studies, elastomers containing different amounts of a CNTs-based modifying filler were prepared. To investigate and elucidate relevant dependencies, a measuring system (MS) was constructed, which makes it possible to determine electrical resistance values of the composite material with different CNTs contents in the polymer matrix composition exposed to various mechanical loads. Basing the research results, it was established that the electrical resistance of the elastomer composites modified with 1.0–2.5 wt.% CNTs decreases when compressing from 0 to 100 N, whereas when the compression force ranges from 100 to 350 N, the electrical resistance remains unchanged. When the elastomer composites modified with 2–2.5 wt.% CNTs were stretched by 30–40 %, the electrical resistance was found to increase from 5·103 to 1.9·107 Ω.


Rare Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
An Xie ◽  
Shen-Wei Mao ◽  
Tian-Jiang Chen ◽  
Hui Yang ◽  
Ming Zhang

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Jungjin Park ◽  
Andrew Becnel ◽  
Alison B. Flatau ◽  
Norman Wereley

1976 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 1167-1181 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Y. Coran ◽  
P. Hamed ◽  
L. A. Goettler

Abstract The measured elastic and strength properties of angle-ply composites of short fibers and rubber depend on test-piece geometry. In general, higher tensile moduli and strengths are obtained when plies are both thin and wide. Once the effects of test-piece geometry are taken into account, elastic properties can be calculated as functions of the properties of a single ply. Classical compliance transformation equations can be used. However, because of the invariance of shear modulus in aligned composites, the tensor transformation equations are somewhat simplified. Tensile strengths of off-axis unidirectional composite plates and balanced-angle plies can be fitted by Hill's criterion. Unidirectional composites tend to fail in the weakest mode, depending on the angle of stress, but laminating causes all principal stresses in a ply to be near their ultimate limit at the time of failure.


2015 ◽  
Vol 133 (7) ◽  
pp. n/a-n/a ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed A. Al-Ghamdi ◽  
Omar A. Al-Hartomy ◽  
Falleh R. Al-Solamy ◽  
Nikolay Dishovsky ◽  
Mihail Mihaylov ◽  
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2014 ◽  
Vol 338 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-53
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Liauw ◽  
Rebecca L. Taylor ◽  
Lindsey J. Munro ◽  
Arthur N. Wilkinson ◽  
Onanong Cheerarot

Author(s):  
Dmitry Yu Borin ◽  
Mikhail V Vaganov

Abstract First-order reversal curve (FORC) analysis allows one to investigate composite magnetic materials by decomposing the magnetic response of a whole sample into individual responses of the elementary objects comprising the sample. In this work, we apply this technique to analysing silicone elastomer composites reinforced with ferromagnetic microparticles possessing low intrinsic coercivity. Even though the material of such particles does not demonstrate significant magnetic hysteresis, the soft matrix of the elastomers allows for the translational mobility of the particles and enables their magnetomechanical hysteresis which renders into a wasp-waisted major magnetization loop of the whole sample. It is demonstrated that the FORC diagrams of the composites contain characteristic wing features arising from the collective hysteretic magnetization of the magnetically soft particles. The influence of the matrix elasticity and particle concentration on the shape of the wing feature is investigated, and an approach to interpreting experimental FORC diagrams of the magnetically soft magnetoactive elastomers is proposed. The experimental data are in qualitative agreement with the results of the simulation of the particle magnetization process obtained using a model comprised of two magnetically soft particles embedded in an elastic environment.


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