Infusion of Graphene Quantum Dots to Create Stronger, Tougher, and Brighter Polymer Composites.

ABSTRACT: Incorporation of nanoparticles into polymer resins has recently attracted a significant amount of attention from researchers for the nanoparticles' ability to alter the properties of the resin. Whereas graphene-based structures possess a two-dimensional honeycomb arrangement of carbon atoms that makes them desirable for engineering composite materials, quantum dot formulations have been primarily used in optoelectronic applications that take advantage of quantum confinement and size-tunable properties. Graphene and quantum dots (GQDs) are ubiquitous in the current research literature; however, the impact of GQD on the physical properties of polymer resins like epoxy remains unclear. Here, we show that infusing GQD into an epoxy polymer matrix results in (1) a 2.6-fold increase in the tough

SUBMITTER: Gobi N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6641722 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature