A composite film having a high dielectric permittivity engineered particles dispersed in a high breakdown strength polymer material to achieve high energy density.

A composite film having a high dielectric permittivity engineered particles dispersed in a high breakdown strength polymer material to achieve high energy density.

Graphene fibers made from a graphene film formed into an elongated fiber-like shape and composite materials made from the graphene fibers. The elongated fiber-like shape may be the graphene film in a rolled spiral orientation or the graphene film in a twisted formation. The graphene film has imide groups formed on at least an outer surface of the graphene film. Methods of increasing strength of a composite material include combining a resin matrix with a plurality of the graphene fibers to form a prepreg material and curing the prepreg material to form the composite material.

Components having fibre-reinforced composite structures are disclosed. The component comprises a plurality of structural fibres embedded in a cured matrix material and a plurality of nanostructures such as carbon nanotubes extending from one or more of the structural fibres. In some embodiments a density of the nanostructures is at least 10.sup.7 nanostructures per cm.sup.2 of surface area of the one or more structural fibres. In some embodiments, the nanostructures extend from an outer fibre proximal to an outer surface of the component but not from an inner fibre distal from the outer surface. In some embodiments the one or more structural fibres from which the nanostructures extend are free of a sizing agent.

The present disclosure provides an aerogel comprising conductive polymers and cellulose nanofibrils (CNF). The present disclosure also provides a sensor comprising the aerogels of the present invention.

Composite material units (CMU) of the structure (SE1-ML-LinkerL-Ligand2-SE2), are provided, wherein ML is a Mechanical Ligand, LinkerL is a chemical bond or entity that covalently links ML and Ligand2, Ligand2 is a chemical entity that is covalently linked to the structural entity SE2, or forms a mechanical bond with the structural entity SE2, and SE1 and SE2 are structural entities.

A glass fiber reinforced polymer reinforcing structure comprised of glass fibers mixed with one or more polymers. Incorporated in the polymer are a hybrid mix of pristine multi-walled carbon nanotubes at 0.0-4.0 wt. % of the polymer and multi-walled carbon nanotubes functionalized with carboxylic group at 0.0-2.0 wt. % of the polymer. The above mixture is pultruded to produce GFRP reinforcing bars, dowels or structural profiles.

Melt emulsification may be employed to form elastomeric particulates in a narrow size range when nanoparticles are included as an emulsion stabilizer. Such processes may comprise combining a polyurethane polymer and nanoparticles with a carrier fluid at a heating temperature at or above a melting point or a softening temperature of the polyurethane polymer, applying sufficient shear to disperse the polyurethane polymer as liquefied droplets in the presence of the nanoparticles in the carrier fluid at the heating temperature, cooling the carrier fluid at least until elastomeric particulates in a solidified state form, and separating the elastomeric particulates from the carrier fluid. In the elastomeric particulates, the polyurethane polymer defines a core and an outer surface of the elastomeric particulates and the nanoparticles are associated with the outer surface. The elastomeric particulates may have a D50 of about 1 m to about 1,000 m.

Foams and methods of fabricating and using the same are provided. The foams can be free-standing and rigid and can be used as, for example, nanofiller networks. The shape and size of the foam pore interconnected network can be tailorable/tailored. The foams can be, for example, transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) foams with a layered structure (e.g., tungsten sulfide (WS.sub.2) foams). A freeze-drying-based method can be used to fabricate bulk porous foam, which can be used for, e.g., polymer nanocomposites. A vacuum-assisted infiltration procedure can be used to fabricate a foam-polymer nanocomposite.

The present invention relates to a carbon fiber-containing curable organosilicon composition and a method for preparing the carbon fiber-containing organosilicon composition. The present invention also relates to the electrically conductive rubber obtained by curing the carbon fiber-containing organosilicon composition and its uses. The curable organosilicon composition comprises: (A) a polysiloxane base composition, and (B) a carbon fiber component; wherein, the carbon fiber component comprises, based on the weight of (A) polysiloxane base composition, 2 to 300%, preferably 5 to 250%, more preferably 15 to 150% of a carbon fiber with average length of 10 m to 5000 m, preferably 30-3500 m, more preferably 60-3000 m with the provisos that: (1) if the carbon fiber component comprises exclusively carbon fiber with average length of not greater than 200 m, its content is greater than 25%; and (2) if the carbon fiber component comprises exclusively carbon fiber with average length of greater than 2800 m, its content is not greater than 40%.