Novel carbon nanotube array-reinforced laminated composite materials with higher interlaminar elastic properties

Mechanical behaviour of advanced composite laminates embedded with carbon nanotubes: review

“…Compression moulding is another low cost method for fabricating host laminates [2,14]. It usually has a pair of heated pressing platens for applying pressure but with no vacuum environment.…”

“…SWNTs are usually smaller in diameter and shorter in length than MWNTs with better mechanical properties. Three major production methods for CNTs are electric arch discharge [6], laser ablation of metal-doped carbon rods and CVD [1][2][3]5,8,10,12,15]. While the first two methods produce high quality CNTs in general, they are neither able to produce only SWNTs nor able to control their lengths.…”

“…As a result, research efforts worldwide, especially from newcomers of entering this emerging field could be more focused on those issues and thereby chanelled into making greater progress rather than reinventing the wheel. This paper intends to provide a state-of-the-art review of the published literature in this field [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] with exclusive attention being paid to experimental work. It aims ultimately at the establishment of a understanding of how and via what deformation mechanisms purposely processed and controlled CNTs influence the mechanical performance of the laminate host.…”

“…Transplanting or insertion technique started with either planting/growing CNTs on a silicon wafer via a CVD process [1,2] or fabrication of nano-composite films [11,14]. For the former, CNTs arrays or forest were then mechanically transplanted onto individual conventional host prepreg surface [1,2].…”

Fabrication and Characterization of Carbon Nanotube/Carbon Fiber/Polycarbonate Multiscale Hybrid Composites

“…Several researches have been reported on impregnation of CNTs into carbon fibers (CFs): infusion/impregnation of a CNT-resin mixture into the primary fiber assembly [8,9], direct growth of CNTs on reinforcement fiber surface through chemical vapor deposition (CVD) [10,11], direct placement of CNTs between layers of the preform [12], electrophoretic deposition onto the surface of fiber [13,14], electrostatic assembly of oxidized CNTs onto functionalized fiber [15] and coating of fiber with CNT-containing sizings [16][17][18][19][20]. Especially, the first and the third methods are widely used due to the easiness of application.…”