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Journal of Composites Science, Volume 7, Issue 4

April 2023 - 43 articles

Cover Story: Self-healing polymers and nanocomposites form an important class of materials having the ability to reversibly heal their damages. In the aerospace sector, thermosets/thermoplastic polymers filled with carbon nanoparticles have gained importance for self-healing of structural damage. Self-healing performance depends on the addition of nanocapsules or carbon nanoparticles, microphase separation, matrix–nanofiller interactions, and polymer–nanofiller inter-diffusion. Self-healing nanocomposites have found potential in aerospace structural components, panels, laminates, membranes, and coatings. Future high-performance self-healing nanocomposites may further broaden the scope of self-healing materials for aerospace structures. View this paper
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Articles (43)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,488 Views
18 Pages

Biodegradation is an important environmental factor controlling the effectiveness of aqueous superabsorbents for soil conditioning. The purpose of the study is to quantify this process using biological oxygen demand (BOD) analysis of composite supera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,737 Views
12 Pages

Wood-plastic composites (WPCs) have shown exceptional promise as a building material, especially for outdoor uses. Using renewable wood fiber as the reinforcing filler in WPCs increases the material’s environmental sustainability. While virgin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,702 Views
16 Pages

Composite Plastic Hybrid for Automotive Front Bumper Beam

  • Shada Bennbaia,
  • Elsadig Mahdi,
  • Galal Abdella and
  • Aamir Dean

The bumper beam is a crucial component of the automobile bumper system, responsible for absorbing impact energy and enhancing the safety of passengers during collisions. This paper presents the design and experimental analysis of a 3D-printed composi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,011 Views
25 Pages

The most important part of the wind turbine is the blade. From existing studies, it has been concluded that most wind turbine blades have a high rate of failure during operation due to fatigue, because of a lack of proper material selection processes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,692 Views
13 Pages

PVB Nanocomposites as Energy Directors in Ultrasonic Welding of Epoxy Composites

  • Fabrizia Cilento,
  • Alessio Bassano,
  • Luigi Sorrentino,
  • Alfonso Martone,
  • Michele Giordano and
  • Barbara Palmieri

Ultrasonic welding (UW) is a well-established technique for joining thermoplastic composites and has recently been utilized in the aerospace and automotive industries. In the case of thermoset composites (TSCs), a polymer-based material placed at the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,845 Views
20 Pages

Mechanical and Tribological Behavior of LM26/SiC/Ni-Gr Hybrid Composites

  • Suyash Y. Pawar,
  • Julfikar Haider,
  • Giuseppe Pintaude,
  • Santhosh Mozhuguan Sekar,
  • Vikram Kolhe,
  • Kailas Chandratre,
  • Sandipkumar Sonawane and
  • Parmeshwar Ritapure

The study evaluates the mechanical and wear properties of LM26 alloy and its hybrid composites with silicon carbide (SiC) and nickel-coated graphite (Ni-Gr). LM26 aluminum alloy is generally known for its high strength, wear, and corrosion resistance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,033 Views
13 Pages

Additive manufacturing is an emerging disruptive 3D printing technology that is stimulating innovations in design and engineering, materials, and manufacturing thanks to the prospects of reducing cost and waste and increasing efficiency; in doing so,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,113 Views
16 Pages

Poly aryl-ether-ketone (PAEK) belongs to a family of high-performance semicrystalline polymers exhibiting outstanding material properties at high temperatures, making them suitable candidates for metallic part replacement in different industries such...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,848 Views
21 Pages

Highly Selective Polyene-Polyyne Resistive Gas Sensors: Response Tuning by Low-Energy Ion Irradiation

  • Ilya A. Zavidovskiy,
  • Oleg A. Streletskiy,
  • Islam F. Nuriahmetov,
  • Olesya Yu. Nishchak,
  • Natalya F. Savchenko,
  • Andrey A. Tatarintsev and
  • Alexander V. Pavlikov

The formation of polyene-polyyne-based nanocomposites by dehydrohalogenation of the drop-cast-deposited polyvinylidene fluoride, assessment and ion-induced tailoring of their gas sensing properties are reported. The investigated structure was analyze...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,299 Views
16 Pages

Impacts of Structure-Directing Agents on the Synthesis of Cu3Mo2O9 for Flexible Lignin-Based Supercapacitor Electrodes

  • Siddhi Mehta,
  • Sangeetha Kumaravel,
  • Swarn Jha,
  • Matthew Yen,
  • Subrata Kundu and
  • Hong Liang

Due to demands for sustainability, the interest in energy storage devices constructed from green materials has increased immensely. These devices currently have yet to be satisfactory. Issues include high production costs and toxicity, limited depend...

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