ISSN :3049-2335
Praveen patel
Adv. Know. Base. Syst. Data Sci. Cyber., 01 (01):1-9
Praveen patel : hhh
Article History: Received on: 08-Jul-25, Accepted on: 08-Jul-25, Published on: 30-Jul-25
Corresponding Author: Praveen patel
Email: patelprem1992@gmail.com
Citation: Praveen patel, Suraj C Sharma, Angrun K (2025). A comprehensive review of graphite nanoplatelets and the influence of nanocomposites processing. Adv. Know. Base. Syst. Data Sci. Cyber., 01 (01 ):1-9
The reinforcement efficiency of graphene in a nanocomposite relies on the
size, morphology, defects and agglomeration of flakes. However, the
characterisation is usually undertaken only for the raw materials and any
changes that take place during processing are not taken into consideration. In
this work, epoxy nanocomposites reinforced by graphite nanoplatelet (GNP) were
prepared and nano-scale X-ray computed tomography was used to visualize the
geometry, morphology and defects of the flakes, as well as the three
dimensional agglomerates that are normally difficult to characterise by other
techniques. In combination with micromechanical analysis, the taxonomy of the
nanoplatelets is shown to be of great importance in controlling the mechanical
properties of nanocomposites, and this has been shown to explain the deviations
of the predictions of micromechanical models from the measured
values. Particularly, it is shown that taking single average values of flake
size may not be appropriate and the entire distribution of flake size need to
be taken into consideration. Furthermore, it is shown that the Young's modulus of a
nanocomposite is controlled principally by a small number of large flakes and
that volume average distributions of flake size are more appropriate to use
rather than number average ones.
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