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Polymer has become one of the most indispensable parts of our life because of its high tensile strength, high melting point, electrical conductivity and low cost. The objective of this work is to increase thermal and mechanical properties of a polymer by metal doping. In this endeavour, epoxy resin has been doped with aluminium and its thermal and mechanical properties were studied. These properties are also compared with epoxy resin and polyvinyl chloride. Metal-doped epoxy resin showed significant improvement in its properties. On comparing its properties with normal epoxy resin, it has been observed that thermal conductivity of metal-doped epoxy resin increased by 12%, tensile strength increased by 16.06% and compressive strength increased by 121.93%.
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The authors acknowledge the support provided by Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, Delhi, for testing the sample. Authors also acknowledge the support provided by Laboratory for Advanced Research of Polymeric Materials (LARPM), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, for testing the prepared samples.
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Joon, I., Das, S., Srivastava, C.M. (2021). Fabrication of Metal-Doped Polymer to Study Its Thermal and Mechanical Properties. In: Kumar, A., Pal, A., Kachhwaha, S.S., Jain, P.K. (eds) Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering . ICRAME 2020. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9678-0_3
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