Advances in the nanotechnology have been actively applied to the field of aerospace
engineering where there is a constant necessity of high durable material with low density …

For decades, enormous investigation effort has been devoted to the fabrication of new
ceramic matrix composites with enhanced mechanical properties. One of the most explored …

Ceramics suffer the curse of extreme brittleness and demand new design philosophies and
novel concepts of manufacturing to overcome such intrinsic drawbacks, in order to take …

Heterogeneous carbon nanotube (CNT)/Al–Cu–Mg composites, consisting of ductile zones
(DZs) free of CNTs and brittle zones (BZs) rich of CNTs, were fabricated in powder …

This paper succinctly reviews from the corpus of literature the reinforcement of aluminium
with carbonaceous nanocompounds (CNTs, GNPs, graphenes etc.), with particular …

Since their discovery in 1991, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have found widespread use in
various industries, from aerospace to energy, due to their excellent mechanical, thermal …

The incessant quest in fabricating enhanced ceramic materials for use in aerospace,
chemical plants, as a cutting tool, and other industrial applications has opened the way for …

Nanocarbon materials (carbon nanotubes, graphene, graphene oxide, reduced graphene
oxide, etc.) are considered the ideal toughening phase of ceramic matrix composites …

Multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT), single-double walled carbon nanotube (SDWCNT)
and single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) were dispersed for the first time into alumina …

An alumina-based nanocomposite is fabricated through the addition of secondary
nanophase material to an alumina matrix to alter and tailor the properties of alumina. The …