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Project

Modelling of the electrical and thermal transport mechanisms in graphene nano-modified polymer compounds and fibres (GraSage). (GraSage)

Graphene has been subject to tremendous research in the field of polymer based composite materiaIs as evidenced by a large number of publications in the last few years. However, no qualitative and quantitative models of the interactions between graphene and the surrounding polymer are currently available. The lack of knowledge about structural formation in nanocomposites impedes the development of high performance graphene-modified fibre materiaIs. 
Thus, the main i nnovation goal of the GraSage project is to develop a model describing the orientation and structural interaction of graphene within the polymer matrix during the fibre meltspinning process and able to predict the electrical, thermal and mechanicaI properties of the nanocomposites.

The KU Leuven team will study the interaction between graphene and the surrounding polymer by performing simulations at the nano- and macro-scale. The approach will combine discrete and continuum models.

Date:1 Jan 2018 →  31 Dec 2019
Keywords:Graphene, nano-modified polymer compounds and fibres, model, electrical, thermal and mechanicaI properties
Disciplines:Ceramic and glass materials, Materials science and engineering, Semiconductor materials, Other materials engineering