Ending the fossil fuel era towards a sustainable future will require high-performing
renewable materials with a low environmental impact. Carbon black, produced by partial …

Diamond is a metastable allotrope of carbon. Monocrystalline diamond with particle size
less than 100 nm (designated as nanodiamond) has been widely studied during the past …

Industrial waste lignin was commonly burnt or discharged into river in the past. However, in
this study, lignin has been converted into high value-added nano-biochar as a renewable …

Highly order-structured carbon-based materials such as graphite, graphene, and carbon
nanotubes hold promise in delivering the next generation of carbon-based advanced …

This research focused on evaluating the thermal and physical properties of a composite
reinforced with nanodiamonds and epitaxial boron nitride in an epoxy matrix. Nanodiamond …

Amine-terminated butadiene-acrylonitrile (ATBN) was covalently grafted on a hexagonal
boron nitride (BN) surface to enhance the interface affinity between BN and a carboxylated …

Fillers in rubber composites are nanomaterials known for their reinforcing properties in
elastomer matrices. Carbon black, a non-renewable material, is currently the preferred filler …

© 2015 Journal of Mechanical Engineering. All rights reserved. In this study, the influence of
micro-And nano-filler content on the mechanical properties of epoxy composites was …

Epoxy asphalt cementitious material is a reactive multi-component and multi-phase
chemically-modified binder. It bonds the aggregates together by utilizing polyaddition and …

A methyl methacrylate (MMA) modified chitosan (CS) conjugate (CSMMA) has been
synthesized by a green method via Michael addition reaction between CS and MMA in …