Additive Manufactured Carbon Nanotube/Epoxy Nanocomposites for Heavy-Duty Applications

Qixiang Jiang; Haiguang Zhang; Dmitrii Rusakov; Neptun Yousefi; Alexander Bismarck

doi:10.1021/acsapm.0c01011

Additive Manufactured Carbon Nanotube/Epoxy Nanocomposites for Heavy-Duty Applications

ACS Appl Polym Mater. 2021 Jan 8;3(1):93-97. doi: 10.1021/acsapm.0c01011. Epub 2020 Dec 8.

Authors

Qixiang Jiang¹, Haiguang Zhang^{1

2}, Dmitrii Rusakov¹, Neptun Yousefi¹, Alexander Bismarck^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Materials Chemistry and Research, Polymer & Composite Engineering (PaCE) Group, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Strasse 42, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
² Rapid Manufacturing Engineering Center, School of Mechatronical Engineering and Automation, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
³ Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.

Abstract

A solid epoxy resin formulation containing 2.5 wt % carbon nanotubes is 3D printed into self-standing parts, which after thermal curing result in CNTs/epoxy nanocomposites with mechanical properties attractive for heavy-duty applications.