Effects of interphase on tensile strength of polymer/CNT nanocomposites by Kelly–Tyson theory

A simple technique for determination of interphase properties in polymer nanocomposites reinforced with spherical nanoparticles

“…The theoretical investigations in the last years proposed a large amount of valuable information about interphase and interfacial interactions in polymer nanocomposites [20][21][22][23][24]. Recently, our group [25] has studied the properties of interphase in polymer/clay nanocomposites by simple models for mechanical…”

Estimation of material and interfacial/interphase properties in clay/polymer nanocomposites by yield strength data

“…In the recent years, many attempts have been made to realize and characterize the parameters which governor the structure-property relationship in the polymer nanocomposites (Fasihi and Abolghasemi, 2012;Nazari et al, 2012;Garmabi, 2012a, 2015a;Zare, 2015aZare, , 2015b. It is well known that many factors related to nanofiller including volume fraction, aspect ratio, strength and dispersion quality as well as the properties of interfacial/interphase region between polymer matrix and dispersed particles such as thickness and strength significantly change the mechanical properties of CPN (Zare, 2015e;Zhu et al, 2011;Li et al, 2012;Garmabi, 2014a, 2014b;Zare, 2015c).…”

“…An efficient stress transfer from matrix to nanoparticles is essential to take the advantages of clay in the nanocomposites such as high modulus and strength. Therefore, the polymer-nanofiller interface/interphase in nanocomposites is a challengeable matter and many researchers have tried to characterize the interface/interphase characteristics by experimental and theoretical methods (Zare, 2014(Zare, , 2015aGarmabi, 2015a, 2015b).…”

“…The mechanism of stress transfer in matrix/fiber composites was explained by various models such as Cox (Zare and Garmabi, 2014a) or Kelly-Tyson (Zare, 2015a) and several techniques such as microRaman spectroscopy (Daniel Wagner, 2002). However, the experimental methods for measurement of size and strength of interphase in nanocomposites are challenging, due to the technical difficulties in manipulation of nanoparticles at nano-scales.…”

Recent Studies on the Multiscale Analysis of Polymer Nanocomposites

“…First, a lot of analysis models were proposed to predict the mechanical properties, such as Young's modulus [32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41], yield stress [42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50], fracture toughness [42,51,52] and other mechanical properties [53][54][55][56]. Also, many studies have been carried out to predict not only mechanical properties, but also electrical properties [57][58][59][60][61][62][63], like electrical conductivity [35,59,[64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76], and dielec...…”