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Title: Fracture Toughness and Elastic Modulus of Epoxy-Based Nanocomposites with Dopamine-Modified Nano-Fillers
Authors: Koh, Kwang Liang
Ji, Xianbai
Dasari, Aravind
Lu, Xuehong
Lau, Soo Khim
Chen, Zhong
Keywords: Polydopamine
Montmorillonite Clay
Issue Date: 2017
Source: Koh, K. L., Ji, X., Dasari, A., Lu, X., Lau, S. K., & Chen, Z. (2017). Fracture Toughness and Elastic Modulus of Epoxy-Based Nanocomposites with Dopamine-Modified Nano-Fillers. Materials, 10(7), 776-.
Series/Report no.: Materials
Abstract: This paper examines the effect of surface treatment and filler shape factor on the fracture toughness and elastic modulus of epoxy-based nanocomposite. Two forms of nanofillers, polydopamine-coated montmorillonite clay (D-clay) and polydopamine-coated carbon nanofibres (D-CNF) were investigated. It was found that Young’s modulus increases with increasing D-clay and D-CNF loading. However, the fracture toughness decreases with increased D-clay loading but increases with increased D-CNF loading. Explanations have been provided with the aid of fractographic analysis using electron microscope observations of the crack-filler interactions. Fractographic analysis suggests that although polydopamine provides a strong adhesion between the fillers and the matrix, leading to enhanced elastic stiffness, the enhancement prohibits energy release via secondary cracking, resulting in a decrease in fracture toughness. In contrast, 1D fibre is effective in increasing the energy dissipation during fracture through crack deflection, fibre debonding, fibre break, and pull-out.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/89355
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44867
ISSN: 1996-1944
DOI: 10.3390/ma10070776
Schools: School of Materials Science & Engineering 
Organisations: A*STAR SIMTech 
Rights: © 2017 by The Author(s). Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Fulltext Permission: open
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