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Reinforce the mechanical toughness, heat resistance, and friction and wear resistance of phenolic resin via constructing self-assembled hybrid particles of graphite oxide and zirconia as nano-fillers

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Phenolic resin modified by common physical methods cannot be applied directly in the military and aerospace fields due to its brittleness, poor heat resistance, and poor friction and wear resistance. Here, a strategy to significantly reinforce these properties was proposed by constructing self-assembled hybrid particles of graphite oxide (GO) and zirconia (ZrO2) nanoparticles to modify phenolic resin. The bending and impact test results showed that the bending strength, bending modulus, and impact strength maximumly increased by 73.6%, 52.3%, and 115.3%, respectively. The thermogravimetric analysis showed that the residual carbon rate increased by 19.7%, and the temperature Td, max at the fastest thermal decomposition rate increased by 18 °C. The friction and wear tests showed that the friction coefficient and wear rate reduced by 27.7% and 64.8%, respectively. The modified phenolic resin has met the applicable standards in military and aerospace fields. This strategy is also applicable to the performance reinforcement of other polymers.

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Strategy to significantly achieve multifunctional collaborative enhancement for phenolic resin by constructing self-assembled hybrid particles of graphite oxide as nano-fillers

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This research is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51973175), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (XDJK2019TY002), the Project for Chongqing University Innovation Research Group of Chongqing Education Committee (CXQT19008), the Chongqing Talent Plan for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Demonstration Team (CQYC201903243), and the S&T Project of Science and Technology Bureau of Bishan District in Chongqing (Bskj20200011).

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  1. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Chongqing Key Laboratory of Soft-Matter Material Chemistry and Function Manufacturing, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China

    Yi He & Jin Huang

  2. College of Aerospace Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China

    Ran Duan & Bo Yan

  3. School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Life Sciences, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, China

    Qingqing Zhang & Tao Xia

  4. School of Materials Science and Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, China

    Shaofeng Zhou

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He, Y., Duan, R., Zhang, Q. et al. Reinforce the mechanical toughness, heat resistance, and friction and wear resistance of phenolic resin via constructing self-assembled hybrid particles of graphite oxide and zirconia as nano-fillers. Adv Compos Hybrid Mater 4, 317–323 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42114-021-00232-1

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