In this work the fracture toughness of epoxy resin has been improved through the addition of low loading of single part and hybrid nanofiller materials. Functionalised multi-walled carbon nanotubes (f-MWCNTs) was used as single filler, increased the critical strain energy release rate, GIC, by 57% compared to the neat epoxy, at only 0.1 wt% filler content. Importantly, no degradation in the ten...

stabilizations and atomic level quadrupole coupling constant (cq) properties have been investigated for graphene–like monolayers (g–monolayers) of boron nitride (bn), boron phosphide (bp), aluminum nitride (aln), and aluminum phosphide (alp) structures. to this aim, density functional theory (dft) calculations have been performed to optimize the model structures and also to evaluate the cq para...

Chemical species in plasma are crucial for understanding the mechanism of cubic boron nitride film vapor phase deposition and controlling the film structure. In this study, the plasma condition for cubic boron nitride deposition by low-pressure inductively coupled plasmaenhanced chemical vapor deposition using B2H6, N2, and Ar as reactant gases has been diagnosed by a quadrupole mass spectromet...

A 'top down' synthesis of carbon and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) nano-scrolls has been developed using the shear forces within dynamic thin films of N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) generated on a rapidly rotating spinning disc processor (SDP), along with a theoretical understanding of the formation of the scrolls.

The viscoelasticity of boron nitride nanosheet (BNNS) aerogel has been observed and investigated. It is found that the BNNS aerogel has a high damping ratio (0.2), while it exhibits lightweight and negligible temperature dependence below 180 °C. The creep behavior of the BNNS aerogel markedly demonstrates its strain dependence on stress magnitude and temperature, and can be well simulated by th...