Journal of Composites Science, Volume 5, Issue 7

Recently, smart composites that serve as multi-functional materials have gained popularity for structural and infrastructural applications yielding condition assessment capabilities. An emerging application is the monitoring and prediction of the fat...

This work serves as a roadmap for the development of a Vanadium dioxide (VO2)–Iridium composite based on the self-assembly of closely packed colloidal polystyrene microspheres (P-spheres) coupled with a Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) process. The self...

In this work, two urethane diols with different middle chain lengths were prepared by the non-isocyanate approach from 1,4-diaminobutane or 1,6-diaminohexane with ethylene cyclic carbonate at room temperature without the aid of a catalyst. Different...

The deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak has become one of the most challenging pandemics in the last century. Clinical diagnosis reports a high infection rate within a large population and a rapid mutation rat...

The functionalization of graphene has been reported widely, showing special physical and chemical properties. However, due to the lack of surface functional groups, the poor dispersibility of graphene in solvents strongly limits its engineering appli...

Cycling stability is a key challenge for application of silicon (Si)-based composite anodes as the severe volume fluctuation of Si readily leads to fast capacity fading. The binder is a crucial component of the composite electrodes. Although only occ...

Drilling two different materials in a layer, or stack-up, is being practiced widely in the aerospace industry to minimize critical dimension mismatch and error in the subsequent assembly process, but the compatibility of the drill to compensate the w...

Carbon-fiber-reinforced ultrahigh-temperature ceramic (C/UHTC) matrix composites are an attractive candidate for fabricating various hot structures. The present study aimed to establish a Si-free Zr–Ti melt-infiltration method for fabricating C/UHTC...

In this paper, micromechanical constitutive models are developed to predict the tensile and fatigue behavior of fiber-reinforced ceramic-matrix composites (CMCs) considering matrix fragmentation and closure. Damage models of matrix fragmentation, int...

The need for reliable methodologies for structural monitoring is certainly a current line of research in many engineering sectors. The detection of the impact on composite materials is in fact a recent subject of study, aimed at safeguarding the mech...