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Effect of carbon fiber reinforcement on the compressive and thermal properties of hollow glass microspheres/epoxy syntactic foam

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Syntactic foams with high strength and light weight are essential for aerospace and deep sea explorations. In this study, high-performance carbon fiber/hollow glass microspheres/epoxy syntactic foams were prepared, and the reinforcing mechanism of carbon fiber is discussed. The syntactic foam with 3 wt% short carbon fiber achieves a uniaxial compressive strength of 141.7 MPa, which is among the highest values reported in the literature. The thermal conductivity of syntactic foam increased by 66.7% with the addition of 3 wt% short carbon fibers, which helped to control the cracking issue caused by the inner temperature surge during the curing process. Further stress characterizations using fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) confirmed that carbon fiber can relieve the evolution of thermal stress and reduce the residual thermal stress.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of CAS (2019029), the fund of the Strategic Priority Research Program A of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA22010201, XDA22010204), and the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFC0304501, 2019YFC0311401).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Carbon Fiber and Functional Polymers, Ministry of Education, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Chao-Yang District, Beijing, 100029, China

    Zehua Zhao & Xiaoxu Wang

  2. Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Haidian District, Beijing, 100190, China

    Zehua Zhao, Bin Liao, Kaiqi Yan & Jingjie Zhang

  3. State Key Laboratory of Transducer Technology, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Haidian District, Beijing, 100083, China

    Bing Lv & Wentao Zhang

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Zhao, Z., Lv, B., Liao, B. et al. Effect of carbon fiber reinforcement on the compressive and thermal properties of hollow glass microspheres/epoxy syntactic foam. J Mater Sci 57, 3396–3404 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-021-06806-0

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