Demands for ever-increasing computing power of miniature devices and rapid emergence of electric vehicles require polymers to exhibit multifunctionality through nanoscale modification.  Carbon nanotubes (CNT), metal oxide quantum dots (QD), nanoplatelets (NP), and their hybrids are being extensively utilized to achieve desirable functional properties.   In doing so, the polymer nanocomposites being prepared tend to become brittle and need to be strengthened and toughened.  In this research, a few effective approaches that can achieve improved strengthening and toughening through unusual nanoscale phenomena will be reported based on a variety of nanoparticles, including the CNT, QD, NP, block copolymers, core-shell particles, and their combinations.

Nanoscale strengthening and toughening phenomena in polymers

256th National Meeting (2018)

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