Processing of Low-Density HGM-Filled Epoxy-Syntactic Foam Composites with High Specific Properties for Marine Applications.

Olusegun Adigun Afolabi, Turup Pandurangan Mohan, Krishnan Kanny

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Hollow Glass Microspheres (HGMs): Synthesis, Characterization, and Processes in Biomedical Applications-A Review.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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The Role of Hollow Glass Microspheres as Functional Fillers in Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites: A Review.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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Preparation and Properties of Hollow Glass Microspheres/Dicyclopentadiene Phenol Epoxy Resin Composite Materials.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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Olusegun Adigun AfolabiComposite Research Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Durban University of Technology, Durban 4000, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-4968-9588

Turup Pandurangan MohanComposite Research Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Durban University of Technology, Durban 4000, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-7577-8405

Krishnan KannyComposite Research Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Durban University of Technology, Durban 4000, South Africa.

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Abstract

A solution casting approach is used to create hollow glass microsphere (HGM)-filled epoxy-syntactic foam composites (e-SFCs) by varying the concentrations of HGM in epoxy according to different particle sizes. Density analysis is used to investigate the impact of concentration and particle size regularity on the microstructure of e-SFCs. It was observed that e-SFCs filled with an HGM of uniform particle sizes exhibit a reduction in density with increasing HGM concentration, whereas e-SFCs filled with heterogeneous sizes of HGM exhibit closeness in density values regardless of HGM concentration. The variation in e-SFC density can be related to HGM packing efficiency within e-SFCs in terms of concentration and particle size regularity. The particle size with lowest true density of 0.5529 g/cm

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aspect ratiodensityepoxy resinhollow glass microspherespacking efficiencyspecific tensile strengthsyntactic foam compositeswall thickness

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PMID36837359

DOI10.3390/ma16041732

PMCPMC9966764

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