Designing Physicochemically‐Ordered Interphases for High‐Performance Composites (Adv. Funct. Mater. 19/2025)
Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites In article number 2502972, Sumit Gupta, Christopher C. Bowland, and co-workers design a physicochemical scaffold using architected, chemically reactive nanofibers that bridge the carbon fibers and matrix at multiple scales, enhancing the mechanical properties of carbon fiber-reinforced polymer composites. These thermally activated nanofibers leverage their mechanochemical properties to form covalent bonds with the matrix, creating a co-continuous network that dramatically improves fiber-matrix load transfer, as validated through nanomechanical studies and molecular dynamics simulations.
Authors
- Swarnava Ghosh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3800-5264)
- Amit K. Naskar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1094-0325)
- Michael D. Toomey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2952-8215)
- Christopher C. Bowland (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1229-4312)
- D P McConnell
- Nihal Kanbargi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7897-6957)
- Rajni Chahal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2190-0473)
- Liam Collins (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4946-9195)
- Tanvir Sohail
- Martí Checa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2607-6866)
- Logan T. Kearney (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0811-3483)
- Sargun Singh Rohewal
- Ilia N. Ivanov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6726-2502)
- Sumit Gupta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1639-4433)
Institutions
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US)
- Material Sciences (United States) (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Advanced Functional Materials
- Published
- 2025-05-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202570109
- Primary Topic
- Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00