crystalline polymer energy

“Sliding Crystals” on Low-Dimensional Carbonaceous Nanofillers as Distributed Nanopistons for Highly Damping Materials

Improving energy dissipation in lightweight polymer nanocomposites to achieve environmentally friendly and mechanically stable structures has reached a limit because of the low-density electrostatic interactions that can be harnessed through the stick-slip mechanism between carbonaceous nanofillers and polymeric chains wrapped around them. In this paper, the atomic friction between the two nanocomposite components is greatly amplified by locally increasing the density of the energetically higher noncovalent bonds.

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