Hybrid Effects in the Fracture Toughness of Polyvinyl Butyral‑Based Nanocomposites
This document is downloaded from DR‑NTU (https://dr.ntu.edu.sg) Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Hybrid effects in the fracture toughness of polyvinyl butyral‑based nanocomposites Shemer, Eldad; Hu, Xiao; Marom, Gad; Stern, Nadya; Dyamant, Itay 2018 Stern, N., Dyamant, I., Shemer, E., Hu, X., & Marom, G. (2018). Hybrid effects in the fracture toughness of polyvinyl butyral‑based nanocomposites. Nanocomposites, 4(1), 1‑9. doi:10.1080/20550324.2018.1447827 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107018 https://doi.org/10.1080/20550324.2018.1447827 © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricteduse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Downloaded on 01 Oct 2021 05:17:18 SGT NANOCOMPOSITES, 2018 VOL. 4, NO. 1, 1–9 https://doi.org/10.1080/20550324.2018.1447827 RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS Hybrid effects in the fracture toughness of polyvinyl butyral-based nanocomposites Nadya Sterna, Itay Dyamantb, Eldad Shemerb, Xiao Huc and Gad Maroma aThe Casali Center of Applied Chemistry and the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, The Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; bOSG Armor R&D, Oran Safety Glass Ltd, Kibbutz Tzuba, Israel; cSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY Hybrid polyvinyl butyral (PVB) nanocomposite films comprising surface-treated carbon Received 3 January 2018 nanotubes (CNT-COOH) and nanoclays (NC) were tested for their “trouser-leg” fracture Accepted 27 February 2018 toughness in comparison to the values of the respective CNT and NC parent composites and to KEYWORDS that of the pristine PVB film.
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