The past two decades have seen atomic force microscopy (AFM) evolve from an
experimental technique to probe simple surface topography to one that can spatially map …

Poor interlaminar fracture toughness has been a major issue in carbon fiber reinforced
thermoset polymer composites. A number of techniques have been studied to improve this …

Conventional piezoresistive sensors of flexible conductive polymer composites (FCPC) are
mostly isotropic because of the weak controllable fabrication strategies. In this study, a facile …

Many experiments have apparently shown that hard nanoparticle-reinforced elastomer
matrix composites have not only an improved loading bearing capacity but also a good …

A bulk modification method is developed in this paper to achieve a new nanoparticle-
reinforced silicone rubber composite with high strength and strong adhesion. Different from …

This study reports the fabrication of the first ceramics‐thermosetting polymer composites by
the cold sintering process, for high ceramic volume fractions (v/v> 95%). The (1− x) ZnO− x …

This work puts forth two families of fully explicit continuum or phenomenological models that
are constructed by approximating an analytical (but implicit) homogenization solution …

The main idea of this work is to investigate the uncertainty propagation while homogenizing
the periodic fiber-reinforced composites with some structural interface imperfections, and …

Standard particulate fillers utilized to enhance the macroscopic elasticity of elastomers—
most notably, carbon black and silica particles—are inherently of nanometer size. Because …

Rubber blends are ubiquitous in countless technological applications. More often than not,
rubber blends exhibit complex interpenetrating microstructures, which are thought to have a …