Toughening of epoxies by covalently anchoring triazole-functionalized stacked-cup carbon nanofibers

• Main Authors: Ding, Guoqiang, Huang, Shu, Dong, Yuliang, Lu, Xuehong, Liu, Wanshuang, Kong, Junhua, Toh, Eric Weilong, Zhou, Rui
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/96761; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10664
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Novel triazole-functionalized carbon nanofibers (m-CNFs) were prepared by one-step arylation with diazonium salts generated in situ. Microscopic observations indicate that m-CNFs exhibit significantly improved dispersibility in a high-performance epoxy resin compared with pristine CNFs (p-CNFs). The...