Comparative physical-mechanical properties assessment of tailored surface-treated carbon fibres

Dionisis Semitekolos; Aikaterini Flora Trompeta; Iryna Husarova; Tamara Man'ko; Aleksandr Potapov; Olga Romenskaya; Yana Liang; Xiaoying Li; Mauro Giorcelli; Hanshan Dong; Alberto Tagliaferro; Costas A. Charitidis

doi:10.3390/ma13143136

Comparative physical-mechanical properties assessment of tailored surface-treated carbon fibres

Dionisis Semitekolos, Aikaterini Flora Trompeta, Iryna Husarova, Tamara Man'ko, Aleksandr Potapov, Olga Romenskaya, Yana Liang, Xiaoying Li, Mauro Giorcelli, Hanshan Dong, Alberto Tagliaferro, Costas A. Charitidis^*

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Carbon Fibres (CFs) are widely used in textile-reinforced composites for the construction of lightweight, durable structures. Since their inert surface does not allow effective bonding with the matrix material, the surface treatment of fibres is suggested to improve the adhesion between the two. In the present study, different surface modifications are compared in terms of the mechanical enhancement that they can offer to the fibres. Two main advanced technologies have been investigated; namely, plasma treatment and electrochemical treatment. Specifically, active screen plasma and low-pressure plasma were compared. Regarding the electrochemical modification, electrochemical oxidation and electropolymerisation of monomer solutions of acrylic and methacrylic acids, acrylonitrile and N-vinyl pyrrolidine were tested for HTA-40 CFs. In order to assess the effects of the surface treatments, the morphology, the physicochemical properties, as well as the mechanical integrity of the fibres were investigated. The CF surface and polymeric matrix interphase adhesion in composites were also analysed. The improvement of the carbon fibre's physical-mechanical properties was evident for the case of the active screen plasma treatment and the electrochemical oxidation.

Original language	English
Article number	3136
Journal	Materials
Volume	13
Issue number	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13143136
Publication status	Published - Jul 2020

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Funding: This research was funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme “Modified cost effective fibre based structures with improved multi-functionality and performance” (MODCOMP), under agreement no. 685844.

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This research was funded by European Union's Horizon 2020 Programme "Modified cost effective fibre based structures with improved multi-functionality and performance" (MODCOMP), under agreement no. 685844. The authors would like to acknowledge the researcher P. Kainourgios (R-NanoLab, NTUA, Greece) for the preparation of the electropolymerised carbon fibres.

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Keywords

Carbon fibres
Electrochemical treatment
Fibre/matrix bond
Mechanical properties
Physical properties
Plasma treatment
Surface properties
Tailored properties
Textile-reinforced composites

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Comparative physical-mechanical properties assessment of tailored surface-treated carbon fibres

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