Contribution of surface roughness and oxygen-containing groups to the interfacial shear strength of carbon fiber/epoxy resin composites

LIANG Yi-cai; ZHANG Xing-hua; WEI Xing-hai; JING De-qi; SU Wei-guo; ZHANG Shou-chun

doi:10.1016/S1872-5805(23)60720-6

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LIANG Yi-cai, ZHANG Xing-hua, WEI Xing-hai, JING De-qi, SU Wei-guo, ZHANG Shou-chun. Contribution of surface roughness and oxygen-containing groups to the interfacial shear strength of carbon fiber/epoxy resin composites. New Carbon Mater., 2023, 38(6): 1116-1126. doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(23)60720-6

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LIANG Yi-cai, ZHANG Xing-hua, WEI Xing-hai, JING De-qi, SU Wei-guo, ZHANG Shou-chun. Contribution of surface roughness and oxygen-containing groups to the interfacial shear strength of carbon fiber/epoxy resin composites. New Carbon Mater., 2023, 38(6): 1116-1126. doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(23)60720-6

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LIANG Yi-cai, ZHANG Xing-hua, WEI Xing-hai, JING De-qi, SU Wei-guo, ZHANG Shou-chun. Contribution of surface roughness and oxygen-containing groups to the interfacial shear strength of carbon fiber/epoxy resin composites. New Carbon Mater., 2023, 38(6): 1116-1126. doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(23)60720-6

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Contribution of surface roughness and oxygen-containing groups to the interfacial shear strength of carbon fiber/epoxy resin composites

doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(23)60720-6

LIANG Yi-cai^{1, 2, 3
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ZHANG Xing-hua^{1, 3},
WEI Xing-hai^{1, 3},
JING De-qi^{1, 3},
SU Wei-guo⁴,
ZHANG Shou-chun^{1, 2, 3
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Research Center of Advanced Thermoplastic Composites Engineering, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy Sciences, Taiyuan 030001, China
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Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Key Laboratory of Carbon Materials, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy Sciences, Taiyuan 030001, China
4.
National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Vessel Integrated Power System, Naval University of Engineering, Wuhan 430033, China

Funds: This work was supported by the Key Research and Development Program of Shanxi Province (202003D111002), Major Science and Technology Project in Shanxi Province (202101040201003); the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51903249) and the Innovation Fund Project of Shanxi Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SCJC-XCL-2022-12)

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梁乙偲，硕士生. E-mail：l785075983@163.com
Corresponding author: ZHANG Shou-chun, Professor. E-mail: zschun@sxicc.ac.cn
Received Date: 2022-11-04
Accepted Date: 2023-01-06
Rev Recd Date: 2023-01-05

Available Online: 2023-01-17

Publish Date: 2023-11-23

Abstract

Abstract

The interfacial shear strength (IFSS) between carbon fibers (CFs) and the matrix is crucial to the performance of CF-reinforced polymer composites. To evaluate the contribution of mechanical interlocking and chemical anchoring at the interfaces of a polyacrylonitrile-based CF (TORAYCA T800SC-12000-10E)-reinforced epoxy resin (EP: bisphenol A type epoxy resin and tetrafunctional epoxy resin) composites, the surface roughness and content of oxygen-containing functional groups of the CFs were respectively altered by ammonia treatment and electrochemical oxidation. The results showed that ammonia treatment increased the surface roughness without much change to the surface elemental composition, while electrochemical oxidation increased the number of surface oxygen groups without changing the surface roughness. The IFSS of CF/EP composites was tested by the micro-droplet method. The relationships between IFSS, and surface roughness and oxygen content were obtained by linear fitting. The results showed that in the interfacial bonding of CF to epoxy resin, the contribution of chemical anchoring to the IFSS is larger than that of mechanical interlocking.
- Carbon fiber,
- Epoxy resin,
- Mechanical interlocking,
- Chemical anchoring,
- Interfacial adhesion

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