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ArticleNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Atomistic to Mesoscopic Modelling of Thermophysical Properties of Graphene-Reinforced Epoxy Nanocomposites.

Atta Muhammad, Carlos Sáenz Ezquerro, Rajat Srivastava, Pietro Asinari, Manuel Laspalas, Agustín Chiminelli, Matteo Fasano

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Article in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Atta MuhammadDepartment of Energy, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy.
Carlos Sáenz EzquerroAragon Institute of Technology ITAINNOVA, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3703-1639
Rajat SrivastavaDepartment of Energy, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0731-2755
Pietro AsinariDepartment of Energy, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1814-3846
Manuel LaspalasAragon Institute of Technology ITAINNOVA, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain.
Agustín ChiminelliAragon Institute of Technology ITAINNOVA, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain.
Matteo FasanoDepartment of Energy, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3997-3681

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European Commission 760779Higher Education Commission HRD Initiative-MS leading to Ph.D. program for faculty development for UESTPs/UETs, Phase-I (Batch-V)
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Abstract

This research addresses the need for a multiscale model for the determination of the thermophysical properties of nanofiller-enhanced thermoset polymer composites. Specifically, we analyzed the thermophysical properties of an epoxy resin containing bisphenol-A diglyceryl ether (DGEBA) as an epoxy monomer and dicyandiamide (DICY) and diethylene triamine (DETA) as cross-linking agents. The cross-linking process occurs at the atomistic scale through the formation of bonds among the reactive particles within the epoxy and hardener molecules. To derive the interatomic coarse-grained potential for the mesoscopic model and match the density of the material studied through atomic simulations, we employed the iterative Boltzmann inversion method. The newly developed coarse-grained molecular dynamics model effectively reproduces various thermophysical properties of the DGEBA-DICY-DETA resin system. Furthermore, we simulated nanocomposites made of the considered epoxy additivated with graphene nanofillers at the mesoscopic level and verified them against continuum approaches. Our results demonstrate that a moderate amount of nanofillers (up to 2 wt.%) increases the elastic modulus and thermal conductivity of the epoxy resin while decreasing the Poisson's ratio. For the first time, we present a coarse-grained model of DGEBA-DICY-DETA/graphene materials, which can facilitate the design and development of composites with tunable thermophysical properties for a potentially wide range of applications, e.g., automotive, aerospace, biomedical, or energy ones.

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coarse-grained molecular dynamicscontinuum simulationelastic matrixgraphenenanocompositepolymerthermal conductivitythermosets

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PMID37446476
PMCPMC10343328

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