The characteristic properties often considered in this area are hardness, elastic modulus, glass transition temperature, toughness, and abrasion resistance.
More suitable for non-aerospace applications are glass fibres (whose modulus can approach 1.5 times that of aluminum) or, in somewhat special cases, a mixture of glass and carbon fibres.
These model systems are interrogated to understand the effects of pendant alkyl chain length material properties including modulus, glass transition temperature, solubility, diffusivity, and permeability of water.
The influence of the nature of the core on modulus, glass transition temperature, Tg, and critical strain energy release rate, G1c, was investigated.
The results showed that the storage modulus, glass transition temperature and electrical conductivity of the polymer were exceptionally enhanced by the attachment to the SWCNTs.
This high modulus glass substrate is expected to provide a solution to the vibration problem of rapid rotation magnetic disk and allow higher track density per inch to be achieved for high performance hard-disk drives (HDDs).
Storage modulus, glass transition temperature, and thermal stability were more similar for epoxy organoclay composites modified with the same concentration of silane surfactant, neat epoxy, and epoxy montmorillonite nanocomposite.
The storage modulus, glass transition temperature, yield strength, Young's modulus and crystallization temperature of PA6 were found to be improved significantly by the incorporation of diamine-modified MWNTs.
Using several fillers simultaneously (mostly mixtures) is the trend of recent years since it can significantly improve the properties of produced composite materials (CMs), such as electrical and thermal conductivity, elastic properties strength, Young's modulus, glass transition temperature, and mechanical losses as compared with CM with a single filler.
