PTC Properties of Polymer Composites with Disperse Conductive Particles

Development and Modeling of Thermally Conductive Polymer/Carbon Composites

Characterization of electrical properties of polymers for conductive nano-composites

Properties of various conductive nano-composites are dominated by quantum-level effects across small barriers created by the matrix material. The properties of the matrix clearly have a vital influence on the resultant behavior of the material. However, the quantification of the relevant matrix properties at the quantum level is difficult to measure using current techniques. This paper reports ...

Mechanical properties of carbon nanotube/polymer composites

The remarkable mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes, such as high elastic modulus and tensile strength, make them the most ideal and promising reinforcements in substantially enhancing the mechanical properties of resulting polymer/carbon nanotube composites. It is acknowledged that the mechanical properties of the composites are significantly influenced by interfacial interactions between...

Hierarchically Ordered Supramolecular Protein-Polymer Composites with Thermoresponsive Properties

Synthetic macromolecules that can bind and co-assemble with proteins are important for the future development of biohybrid materials. Active systems are further required to create materials that can respond and change their behavior in response to external stimuli. Here we report that stimuli-responsive linear-branched diblock copolymers consisting of a cationic multivalent dendron with a linea...

Design of electrical conductive composites: tuning the morphology to improve the electrical properties of graphene filled immiscible polymer blends.

Polystyrene (PS) and poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) blends filled with octadecylamine-functionalized graphene (GE-ODA) have been fabricated to obtain conductive composites with a lower electrical percolation threshold according to the concept of double percolation. The dependence of the electrical properties of the composites on the morphology is examined by changing the proportion of PS and ...