• 文献标题:   Broad Tunability in mechanical properties of closed cellular foams using micro-bubble assembly of Graphene/silica Nanocomposites
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LEE JH, OH MJ, YOO PJ
  • 作者关键词:   closedcellular structure, composite, foam, microfluidic, solid bubble
  • 出版物名称:   MATERIALS DESIGN
  • ISSN:   0264-1275 EI 1873-4197
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  • 被引频次:   6
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.matdes.2021.109558 EA FEB 2021
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

Cellular structures are central to the design of lightweight yet strong materials for engineering development. However, the material properties of cellular foams made of specific elements are placed in a narrow range in their density and corresponding mechanical properties. Here, this study presents an innovative design of creating closed-cellular structured (CCS) foams with a wide range of physical controllability. The CCS foams are prepared by assembly of solid bubbles consisting of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) and silica nanoparticles. By varying their compositional ratio, the resulting CCS foams exhibit completely discerned structural morphologies: Rhom-bic dodecahedral (RDH) internal cells for higher rGO content, whereas a fused face centered cubic (FCC)-like in-ternal cells for a higher content of silica. As such, these tunable CCS foams manifest an extended relationship in density and resulting mechanical properties, spanning from a density of 2.3 mg/cm(3) and corresponding Young's modulus of 0.102 MPa (for RDH) to 444.27 mg/cm(3) and 180.3 MPa (for fused-FCC). Moreover, silica-containing CCS can exhibit a thermal insulation property with a greatly reduced thermal conductivity (kappa) of 48 mW/m.K. therefore, this approach of creating the structurally tunable CCS foams would offer a concrete toolkit for design -ing high-performance cellular structures with on-demand physical/mechanical properties (C) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).