Carbon-based nanoparticles have recently generated a great attention, as they could create
polymer nanocomposites with enhanced transport properties, overcoming some limitations …

Polymer-derived ceramics (PDCs) have been intensively studied for nearly 50 years due to
their unique advantages to producing ceramic fibers, coatings, foams, nanocomposites and …

Reduction of a colloidal suspension of exfoliated graphene oxide sheets in water with
hydrazine hydrate results in their aggregation and subsequent formation of a high-surface …

This third edition offers a comprehensive overview of the latest theories on flow, transport,
and heat-exchange processes in porous media. It also details sophisticated porous media …

Over the past two decades percolation theory has been used to explain and model a wide
variety of phenomena that are of industrial and scientific importance. Examples include …

Percolation and Bruggeman's effective media theories, as they apply to the electrical
conductivity of composites, are reviewed, and a general effective media (GEM) equation …

Self-sensing cementitious composite is a kind of cementitious material which possesses
both mechanical and sensing properties. The stress and strain state of the structure can be …

Theoretical prediction of effective properties for multiphase material systems is very
important not only to analysis and optimization of material performance, but also to new …

Poly (ethylene oxide)(PEO)-based composite polymer electrolytes have been widely studied
during the last ten years. At present, systems with room temperature conductivity up to 10− 4 …

In this research, an analytical formula has been developed to predict electrical conductivity
of composites reinforced by conductive fillers such as polymer-based carbon composites. In …