Toughening in graphene ceramic composites

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 3182-3190

  Walker, Luke S ^a   Marotto, Victoria R ^a   Rafiee, Mohammad A ^b   Koratkar, Nikhil ^b   Corral, Erica L ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

ceramics; fracture toughness; graphene; nanocomposites; silicon nitride

Indexed keywords

BULK SILICON-NITRIDE; CERAMIC COMPOSITES; CERAMIC GRAINS; CERAMICS; GRAPHENE PLATELETS; NITRIDE PARTICLES; POLYMER MATRICES; PROCESSING ENVIRONMENTS; SINTERING PARAMETERS; THREE DIMENSIONS; TOUGHENING MECHANISMS;

CERAMIC MATERIALS; FRACTURE; GRAPHENE; NANOCOMPOSITES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SILICON NITRIDE; SPARK PLASMA SINTERING;

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS;

EID: 79955406290     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn200319d     Document Type: Article

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