Aquesta és una còpia de la versió author’s final draft d'un article publicat a la revista Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry. La publicació final està disponible a Springer a través de http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10973-016-5278-0 This is a copy of the author 's final draft version of an article published in the journal Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry. The final publication i...

Hitherto the MEMS field has evolved with the semiconductor industry where silicon is the predominant material. As the MEMS sector expands and diversifies, research focuses on new optimised materials with respect to the functional requirements (e.g. low cost, flexibility, optical transparency, biocompatibility and large surface) of future electronic devices [1]. To this end, substituting rigid i...

Future high performance structural and multifunctional composites may utilize continuous carbon nanotube reinforcements. The nano-scale interactions between carbon nanotubes and epoxy macromolecules in such composites open new areas of research and technology. Tensile mechanical tests and Dynamic Mechanical Analysis are used here for gaining an initial understanding of such interactions and exp...

16 Multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) are nanofillers used in consumer and structural 17 polymeric products to enhance a variety of properties. Under weathering, the polymer matrix will 18 degrade and the nanofillers may be released from the products potentially impacting ecological or 19 human health. In this study, we investigated the degradation of a 0.72 % (by mass) 20 MWCNT/amine-cured ep...

Abstract Carbon nanotubes/epoxy composites are increasingly employed in several industrial fields, because of the enhanced material properties provided by nanofillers. In particular, thermal conductivity these nanocomposites is determined heat transfer mechanisms occurring over multiple scales, thus causing a complex relation between effective response and microscopic characteristics material. ...

Abstract The enhancing effect on mechanical properties of boehmite (γ‐AlOOH) nanoparticles (BNP) in epoxy‐based nanocomposites the macroscopic scale encouraged recent research to investigate micro‐ and nanoscopic properties. Several studies presented different aspects relatable an alteration epoxy polymer network formation by BNP with need for further experiments identify mode action. With FTIR...