2015-Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit
SIPS 2015 Volume 10: Mineral & Secondary Battery
| Editors: | Kongoli F, Silva AC, Arol AI, Kumar V, Aifantis K |
| Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
| Publication Year: | 2015 |
| Pages: | 340 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-1-987820-33-1 |
| ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
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The Effect of Carbon Materials on the Properties of Epoxy
Aysenur Gul1; Ali Kamali2; Derek Fray3;1IPYK UNIVERSITY, Istanbul, Turkey; 2UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, Cambridge, United Kingdom (Great Britain); 3DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE AND METALLURGY, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, CAMBRIDGE, Cambridge, United Kingdom (Great Britain);
Type of Paper: Regular
Id Paper: 433
Topic: 14
Abstract:
Nanostructured carbon composites can play important roles in lithium and other batteries. Preparation and characterisation of such composites are therefore important in further development of batteries.
Carbon nanostructures including carbon nanotubes, nanoparticles and graphene can economically be produced in molten lithium chloride. The present work reports the influence of the molten salt synthesised carbon nanostructure filler and commercial graphite on the properties of epoxy resin. The carbon materials were incorporated into the polymer matrix to make composites. The carbon-epoxy composites produced were then characterized by a variety of techniques including scanning electron microscopy, x-ray diffractometry, and dynamic mechanical analysis. The thermal and mechanical properties of the nanocomposites were also measured. It was found that addition of carbon materials can enhance the properties of the epoxy matrix considerably.