dc.contributor.author | Yazdani, Bahareh | |
dc.contributor.author | Porwal, Harshit | |
dc.contributor.author | Xia, Yongde | |
dc.contributor.author | Yan, Haixue | |
dc.contributor.author | Reece, Mike J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Zhu, Yanqiu | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-06-15T14:03:53Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-09 | |
dc.description.abstract | The effects of hot-pressing (HP) and spark plasma sintering (SPS) methods on the grain size, microstructural features, and mechanical behaviour of graphene nanoplatelet/carbon nanotubes (GNTs) reinforced Al2O3 nanocomposites were comprehensively studied. Different graphene nanoplatelet to carbon nanotube ratios were selected as the overall reinforcement content of composites prepared using HP and SPS. Highly densified samples (>98%) were obtained at 1650 °C under 40 MPa in Ar atmosphere, with dwell times of 1 h and 10 min for HP and SPS respectively. Both types of sample showed a mixture of inter- and transgranular fracture behaviour. A 50% grain size reduction was observed for samples prepared by HP compared to SPS samples. Both types of samples achieved a high flexural strength and fracture toughness of >400 MPa and 5.5 MPa m1/2, whilst SPS samples peaked at relatively lower GNT contents than those for the HP samples. Based on analyses of the morphology, grain sizes and fracture mode, similar toughening mechanisms for both types of sample were observed, involving the complex characteristics of the combined GNT fillers. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | University of Exeter - scholarship | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Sunchon National University, South Korea - BK21+programme | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 41 (8), pp. 9813–9822 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.ceramint.2015.04.054 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | EP/J016926/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/17550 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2015.04.054 | en_GB |
dc.rights.embargoreason | Publisher policy | en_GB |
dc.rights | Accepted manuscript: © 2015, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_GB |
dc.subject | Carbon nanotubes | en_GB |
dc.subject | Graphene nanoplatelets | en_GB |
dc.subject | Hot-press | en_GB |
dc.subject | Spark plasma sintering | en_GB |
dc.subject | Al2O3 | en_GB |
dc.title | Role of synthesis method on microstructure and mechanical properties of graphene/carbon nanotube toughened Al2O3 nanocomposites | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 0272-8842 | |
pubs.declined | 2016-05-13T14:00:44.427+0100 | |
pubs.deleted | 2016-05-13T14:00:44.851+0100 | |
dc.description | Copyright © 2015 Elsevier. NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Ceramics International. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Ceramics International (2015), DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2015.04.054 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Ceramics International | en_GB |