A novel carbon nanofibre/phenolic nanocomposite coated polymer system for tailoring thermal behaviour

Ehsan Bafekrpour; George P. Simon; Chunhui Yang; Mircea Chipara; Jana Habsuda; Bronwyn Fox

doi:10.1016/j.compositesa.2012.10.005

A novel carbon nanofibre/phenolic nanocomposite coated polymer system for tailoring thermal behaviour

Ehsan Bafekrpour, George P. Simon, Chunhui Yang, Mircea Chipara, Jana Habsuda, Bronwyn Fox

School of Engineering, Design & Built Environment

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Carbon nanofibre (CNF)/phenolic nanocomposite coatings were applied to the phenolic substrate for tailoring thermal behaviour under rapid temperature changes. A finite element (FE) model was developed in this work for transient thermal analysis of coated samples. The effects of thickness and CNF content of the CNF/phenolic nanocomposite coating on reducing temperature gradient field within the samples as well as transient time to steady state were investigated. Temperature-dependent thermal properties including thermal conductivity and heat capacity of phenolic and its nanocomposites containing 2, 4 and 16 wt% CNF were experimentally determined and employed in the FE analysis. The results showed that the temperature gradient field and transient time within the polymers can significantly be decreased by using a CNF/phenolic nanocomposite coating.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	80-88
Number of pages	9
Journal	Composites. Part A, Applied Science and Manufacturing
Volume	46
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesa.2012.10.005
Publication status	Published - 2013

Keywords

carbon fibre
fabrication
graphite
polymer-matrix composites
thermal analysis
thermal properties

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A novel carbon nanofibre/phenolic nanocomposite coated polymer system for tailoring thermal behaviour

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