Nanocomposite materials containing metal nanoparticles are of considerable interest in photonics and optoelectronics applications. However, device fabrication of such materials always encounters the challenge of incorporation of preformed nanoparticles into photoresist materials. As a solution to this problem, an easy new method of fabricating silver nanocomposites by an in situ reduction of pr...

Metal-ferroelectric-insulator-semiconductor (MFIS) devices were successfully fabricated using poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) (PVDF-TrFE) and poly (methyl methacrylate): titanium dioxide (PMMA:TiO2) nanocomposite as ferroelectric and insulator films, respectively on n-type silicon (n-Si) substrate. Both ferroelectric and insulator films were prepared by sol-gel spin coating method. ...

The photothermal effect of metal nanoparticles embedded in polymeric materials can be used to effi ciently generate local heat for in situ thermally processing within an existing material. Fluorescent probes are employed as thermal sensors to allow dynamical measurement of the amplitude and rate of temperature change within the polymer matrix. The effi cacy of this technique is demonstrated in ...

This paper studies the pure bending and bending-induced local buckling of a nanocomposite beam reinforced by a single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT). The Airy stress-function method was employed to analyse the deformation of the matrix, and the cross-sectional change of the SWNT in bending was taken into account. A particular consideration was given to the effect of the SWNT s radial flexibility...

The effects of physisorbed polymer molecules on carbon nanotubes dispersed in a soft polymer matrix on the resulting mechanical strength of the nanocomposite are reported. From measurements of the large-strain deformation of the nanocomposites, the shear strength, τ, of the nanotube/matrix interface was determined as a function of the interfacial polymer chain length and the chain density, Σ. T...

A novel bioanalogue hydroxyapatite (HAp)/chitosan phosphate (CSP) nanocomposite has been synthesized by a solution-based chemical methodology with varying HAp contents from 10 to 60% (w/w). The interfacial bonding interaction between HAp and CSP has been investigated through Fourier transform infrared absorption spectra (FTIR) and x-ray diffraction (XRD). The surface morphology of the composite...

Flexible high-loading nanoparticle-reinforced polyurethane magnetic nanocomposites fabricated by the surface-initiated polymerization (SIP) method are reported. Extensive field emission scanning electron microscopic (SEM) and atomic force microscopic (AFM) observations revealed a uniform particle distribution within the polymer matrix. X-ray photoelectron spectrometry (XPS) and differential the...

TiO2/graphene nano platelets (GNP) nanocomposite cathodes have been synthesized through a simple ball mill process. TiO2 anatase nanoparticles, around 16 nm in size, were encapsulated in the 2D graphene matrix. The synthesized samples are characterized using x-ray diffraction (XRD), DSC, impedance spectroscopy, and scanning electron microscope (SEM). The graphene nano platelets act not only to ...

The unusual electrical, optical, magnetic, and chemical properties of metal colloids (better known in nowadays as metal nanoparticles, MNPs) have attracted increasing interest of scientists and technologists during the last decade. In fact, although Nanoscience and Nanotechnology are quite recent disciplines, there have already been a high number of publications that discuss these topics. [1-11...

In this work, we studied a nanocomposite material made from fluoroplastic which contains 20 wt.% multi-walled nanotubes. In order to complete the present work, we have used different thermodynamic and mechanical techniques. The introduction of nanotubes in the F4 polymer matrix has completely changed the tribological and thermodynamic properties of the studied nanocomposite material. The compre...