Imagine an industrialist and his design team relatively aware of the developments in the research with nano-fillers asking themselves: What can we do with nano-composites and make a net profit up to the ‘promises’ of the current state of the art? Research announced potential areas of interest for practical applications include mechanical performance, toughness improvement, surface hardening, fi...

NIST RESEARCH SHOWS NANOCOMPOSITE CAN TAKE THE HEAT Remember the scene in “The Graduate” when a wouldbe mentor wraps his arm around young Benjamin and says, “I’ve got just one word for you . . . Are you listening? . . . Plastics!” If that film were being made in 1997, that one word might be nanocomposites. Nanocomposites are super plastics—compounds in which about 1 nm size particles of montmor...

Few would now deny that the use of organobromine compounds to achieve fire retardancy in a diverse array of products and materials has led to contamination of the ecosphere on a widespread scale. This environmental prevalence and persistence of the brominated flame retardants, coupled with growing evidence of their potential for harm, present all too familiar parallels with the previous generat...

Fire-retardant (FR) treated wood-based panels, used commonly in furniture and construction, need to meet stringent fire safety regulations. This study presents a novel treatment for imparting resistance wood composites by applying separate solutions of phytic acid sodium silicate onto particles before the hot pressing at 160 °C. A scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive X-ray spectroscop...

Paper has gained popularity as a packaging material due to its reduced environmental impact compared with non-degradable alternatives. However, flammability poses safety risks, prompting research on enhancing flame retardancy. This work introduces diffusion-driven self-assembly strategy (DDSAS) create functional graphene oxide (GO) coating various papers. DDSAS involves infiltrating the paper’s...

The multifunctional novolac epoxy/Al 2 O 3 nanocomposites were fabricated by high-speed mechanical mixing of epoxy resin with varying concentration nano Al (0–5 wt%) particle size 13 nm for 30 min, followed curing triethylenetetramine (TETA) at 110°C 1 h and post-curing 80°C 5 h. nanocomposite samples characterized properties (viz., tensile strength, elongation-at-break, impact toughness, hardn...

Abstract Glass fiber‐polyamide 6 (PA6) composites are widely used for various automotive applications, yet the ability to exhibit multifunctional properties and cost of it remains challenging. Herein this work introduces a cost‐effective approach utilization waste glass fiber (GF), green aluminium metal organic framework (Al‐MOF), industry‐grade graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) fabrication PA6 the...