{"id":334,"date":"2017-09-19T23:04:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T23:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/?p=334"},"modified":"2017-09-21T16:54:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T16:54:17","slug":"thermal-expansion-of-polymer-nanocomposites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/2017\/09\/19\/thermal-expansion-of-polymer-nanocomposites\/","title":{"rendered":"Published our findings on experimental and modeling of thermal expansion behavior of polymer nanocomposites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4488\/2017\/09\/DIC-setup.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-310 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4488\/2017\/09\/DIC-setup.jpeg?resize=437%2C276\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"276\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>The thermal expansion behavior of polymer carbon nanotube (CNT) nanocomposites was investigated, and a micromechanical model was proposed to explain the highly nonlinear dependence of the coefficient of thermal expansion of the nanocomposite with CNT content for the CNT\/polyimide nanocomposite. The proposed micromechanical analytical model was found to correlate closely with the experimental results for polyimide\/CNT nanocomposite films as measured using a digital image correlation method\u00a0\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/317677220_Role_of_hierarchical_morphology_of_helical_carbon_nanotube_bundles_on_thermal_expansion_of_polymer_nanocomposites\">Research Gate link)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thermal expansion behavior of polymer carbon nanotube (CNT) nanocomposites was investigated, and a micromechanical model was proposed to explain the highly nonlinear dependence of the coefficient of thermal expansion of the nanocomposite with CNT content for the CNT\/polyimide nanocomposite&#8230;. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/2017\/09\/19\/thermal-expansion-of-polymer-nanocomposites\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6960,"featured_media":311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4488\/2017\/09\/JMR-logo.jpg?fit=1134%2C567&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9azNq-5o","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6960"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cmsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}