Advanced Materials & Manufacturing – Page 576

Imation Tera Angstrom™ Technology – Nanotechnology Applications

Kulkarni S.K., Imation Corp., US

Imation Tera Angstrom Technology achieves surface smoothness and uniformity on magnetic tape media that allows for increased bit and track density and increased storage capacity. This revolutionary and proprietary advanced metal particulate coating formulation and [...]

Plasma Manufacturing of Near-Net-Shape Large Scale Nanocomposite Structures – A Potential Bulk Nanofabrication Tool

Georgieva P., Viswanathan V., Hong S-J, Rea K., Seal S., University of Central Florida, AMPAC, US

In this presentation we report, for the first time, the successfully fabrication of a near-net shape bulk nanocomponent using plasma spray forming. In the research toward development of a component with retained nanostructure, enhanced oxidation [...]

Synthesis and Characterization of Perovskite Ca0.5Sr0.5MnO3 Nanoparticles in w/o-Microemulsions

López-Trosell A., Schomäcker R., TU Berlin, DE

In the present work, w/o-microemulsions were employed to produce nanoparticles of perovskite Ca0.5 Sr0.5 MnO3. The reaction inside the microemulsion droplets was achieved by addition of sodium hydroxide as co-precipitation agent. Afterward the precursor of [...]

Electromagnetic Containerless Processing of Single-walled Nanotube Reinforced Metal-Matrix Composites

Wilson K., Zeng Q., Barrera E., Bayazitoglu Y., Rice University, US

Single walled carbon nanotube (SWNTs) reinforced copper (Cu) matrix composites were produced by powder metallurgy (PM) and electromagnetic levitation methods. The nanotubes where first decorated with a Nickel coating using incipient wetting and then dispersed [...]

Investigation of Thermal and Mechanical Response of Nylon-6 Filaments with the Infusion of Acicular and Spherical Nanoparticles

Mahfuz H., Hasan M.M., Rangari V.K., Jeelani S., Tuskegee University, US

It has been demonstrated in recent years that infusion of nanoparticles in thermoset as well as in thermoplastic polymers can help improve the chemical, thermal, and mechanical properties significantly. The improvement in properties can be [...]

The Impact of Nano-Materials on Coating Technologies

Cayton R.H., Sawitowski T., Nanophase Technologies Corporation, US

Nanocomposite coatings are made by embedding nanocrystalline metal oxide particles in a polymer matrix. The benefits accrued by incorporating nanoparticles into a polymer matrix become economically driven when several advantageous properties are obtained simultaneously, compared [...]

Effect of Nanoclay Content on Mechanical Behaviour of TGDDM Epoxy Nanocomposites

Huong N.T.P., Crosky A., Qi B., Kelly D., Li D.C., The University of New South Wales, AU

Exfoliated nanocomposites based on tetraglycidyldiamino diphenylmethane (TGDDM) cured by diethyltoluene diamine (DETDA) reinforced with 1-20 phr of a commercial nanoclay (I30E) were prepared. The effect of the nanoclay content on the compressive modulus of the [...]

Polymeric Nanocomposites Enabled by Controlled Architecture Materials

Shefelbine T.A., Marx R.E., Nelson J.M., Longabach J.W., Brostrom M.L., Bucket M.I., 3M Corporate Research, US

This presentation will focus on the use of Controlled Architecture Materials (CAMs): block copolymers, telechelic, gradient and star branched polymers as additives to induce the exfoliation of nanoclays in thermoplastic resins. Conventional exfoliation methods include [...]

Nano Composites

Three-dimensional Structure of Nanocrystals from High-energy X-ray Diffraction and Atomic Pair Distribution Function Analysis

Petkov V., Central Michigan University, US

3-D, nanocrystal, high-energy, X-ray, diffraction, atomic pair, distribution function analysis