Toughened and machinable glass matrix composites reinforced with graphene and graphene-oxide nano platelets

Science and Technology of Advanced Materials

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Porwal, Harshit ^a,b   Tatarko, Peter ^c   Grasso, Salvatore ^a,b   Hu, Chunfeng ^d   Boccaccini, Aldo R ^e   Dlouhý, Ivo ^c   Reece, Mike J ^a,b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Nanoforce Technology Limited   (United Kingdom)

^c CEITEC IPM Institute of Physics of Materials ASCR   (Czech Republic)

^d NINGBO INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

graphene graphene oxide nanoplatelets; mechanical properties; nanocomposites; silica; sintering

Indexed keywords

BRITTLENESS INDEX; COLLOIDAL PROCESSING ROUTE; CRACK DEFLECTIONS; GLASS MATRIX COMPOSITES; NANO-PLATELETS; NANOTUBE COMPOSITES; PROCESSING CONDITION; TOUGHENING MECHANISMS;

CRACKS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; GRAPHENE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOCOMPOSITES; SILICA; SINTERING; SPARK PLASMA SINTERING;

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EID: 84887095726     PISSN: 14686996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1468-6996/14/5/055007     Document Type: Article

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