Fabrication and Tribological Properties of Epoxy Nanocomposites Reinforced by MoS₂ Nanosheets and Aligned MWCNTs.

ABSTRACT: The epoxy nanocomposites reinforced by MoS₂ nanosheets and aligned multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) were fabricated by DC electric field inducement. The epoxy nanocomposites achieved improvement in the tribological properties with the addition of randomly dispersed MoS₂ and MWCNTs compared to the pure epoxy. Furthermore, the epoxy nanocomposites exhibit anisotropic tribological and mechanical properties when the MWCNTs are aligned in the composites. The tribological properties of epoxy nanocomposites containing 1 wt% MoS₂ and aligned 1.2 wt% MWCNTs achieved the maximum improvement when the sliding direction is perpendicular to the axial direction of MWCNTs. Compared to random MoS₂ nanosheets and random MWCNTs reinforced epoxy nanocomposites

SUBMITTER: Tong Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11478268 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature