TY - JOUR
T1 - Investigation on the interfacial mechanical properties of hybrid graphene-carbon nanotube/polymer nanocomposites
AU - Liu, Feng
AU - Hu, Ning
AU - Ning, Huiming
AU - Atobe, Satoshi
AU - Yan, Cheng
AU - Liu, Yaolu
AU - Wu, Liangke
AU - Liu, Xuyang
AU - Fu, Shaoyun
AU - Xu, Chaohe
AU - Li, Yuanqing
AU - Zhang, Jianyu
AU - Wang, Yu
AU - Li, Weidong
N1 - Funding Information:
The present work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11332013, No.11372104, No. 11372363, No. 75121543, No.11632004, No. 11604033, No. 11602040 and No. 51603022), Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation (No. LZ12E06001), National Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing (Grant No. cstc2015jcyjA50021) and Key Program for International Science and Technology Cooperation Projects of Ministry of Science and Technology of China (No. 2016YFE0125900). The authors acknowledge Dr. Fuhao Mo (Hunan University, China) for kindly providing the computational resources.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2017/5/1
Y1 - 2017/5/1
N2 - A remarkable synergetic effect between the graphene (GR) and carbon nanotube (CNT) in improving the interfacial mechanical properties of polyethylene polymer composites was investigated using molecular dynamics simulations. The reinforcement effects of two types of hybrid GR-CNT were evaluated. For the π−π stack hybrid GR-CNT, the alignment of CNT has a slight effect on the interfacial mechanical properties. For the covalent bond hybrid GR-CNT, the reinforcement effect increases with the CNT's length and radius, and multi-walled carbon nanotube is more efficient than single-walled carbon nanotube. With the same parameters of CNT, the interfacial mechanical properties of π−π stack hybrid GR-CNT is superior to the covalent bond hybrid GR-CNT. Compared with GR, the hybrid GR-CNT can effectively enhance the interfacial mechanical properties due to the synergetic effect between the GR and the CNT.
AB - A remarkable synergetic effect between the graphene (GR) and carbon nanotube (CNT) in improving the interfacial mechanical properties of polyethylene polymer composites was investigated using molecular dynamics simulations. The reinforcement effects of two types of hybrid GR-CNT were evaluated. For the π−π stack hybrid GR-CNT, the alignment of CNT has a slight effect on the interfacial mechanical properties. For the covalent bond hybrid GR-CNT, the reinforcement effect increases with the CNT's length and radius, and multi-walled carbon nanotube is more efficient than single-walled carbon nanotube. With the same parameters of CNT, the interfacial mechanical properties of π−π stack hybrid GR-CNT is superior to the covalent bond hybrid GR-CNT. Compared with GR, the hybrid GR-CNT can effectively enhance the interfacial mechanical properties due to the synergetic effect between the GR and the CNT.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.carbon.2017.01.039
DO - 10.1016/j.carbon.2017.01.039
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85010754441
VL - 115
SP - 694
EP - 700
JO - Carbon
JF - Carbon
SN - 0008-6223
ER -