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Understanding the effect of ultra-low nanofiller loadings on optically-transparent polycarbonate
thesis
posted on 2017-05-30, 14:51 authored by Sian HiglettThe use of fillers in materials engineering has long been used to improve material properties such as strength, stiffness and toughness. However, these enhancements tend to occur at the detriment to optical transparency in transparent polymeric materials. Nano-sized fillers or nanofillers are thought to maintain the transparency of such materials due to their small size. Moreover because of their smaller size, nanofillers have larger interfacial areas and can therefore provide increased interaction sites (providing fine dispersion in the medium). [Continues.]
Funding
EPSRC
DSTL
History
School
- Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering
Department
- Materials
Publisher
Loughborough UniversityRights holder
© Siân L.C. HiglettPublisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2017Notes
A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy of Loughborough University.Language
- en
Supervisor(s)
Mo Song ; Stephen Shaw ; Phillip DukeQualification name
- PhD
Qualification level
- Doctoral