Nano-toughening versus micro-toughening of polymer syntactic foams

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 67, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 2924-2933

  Wouterson, E M ^a   Boey, F Y C ^a   Wong, S C ^b   Chen, L ^c   Hu, X ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b University of Akron   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

A. Carbon fibres; A. Hybrid composites; A. Nanoclays; Nano and micro toughening

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOFIBERS; ELASTIC MODULI; FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS; FRACTURE; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; HYBRID MATERIALS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TOUGHENING;

NANOCLAY; POLYMER SYNTACTIC FOAM;

FOAMS;

CARBON FIBER; FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; FOAM; FRACTURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TENSILE PROPERTY; TOUGHNESS; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 34548277002     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2007.05.019     Document Type: Article

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