Highlights

This is a selection of publications from the Structural Power Composites Group. For a full list of publications, please see below.

Highlights

Structural power phone

Massless energy

‘Massless’ energy for future electric vehicles using multifunctional structural power composites
Structural supercapacitor citation map

Structural supercapacitors review

A critical review of structural supercapacitors and outlook on future research challenges
Structural power plane

Structural power in electric aircraft

Structural Power Performance Targets for Future Electric Aircraft
Recent progress in free-standing supercapacitors

Free-standing supercapacitors

Challenges and opportunities in free-standing supercapacitors research
CNT-infiltrated CF

CF-CNT structural supercapacitors

Robust Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube-Infiltrated Carbon Fiber Electrodes for Structural Supercapacitors

Model Car

Multifunctional performance

Mechanical, electrochemical and multifunctional performance of a CFRP/carbon aerogel structural supercapacitor
Student operates flight simulator in the Department of Aeronautics

Structural power in aircraft cabins

Conceptual Multifunctional Design, Feasibility and Requirements for Structural Power in Aircraft Cabins

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Anthony:2023:10.1016/j.coco.2023.101531,
author = {Anthony, DB and Nguyen, SN and Qian, H and Xu, S and Shaw, CMD and Greenhalgh, ES and Bismarck, A and Shaffer, MSP},
doi = {10.1016/j.coco.2023.101531},
journal = {Composites Communications},
pages = {1--7},
title = {Silica aerogel infused hierarchical glass fiber polymer composites},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coco.2023.101531},
volume = {39},
year = {2023}
}
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RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - JOUR
AB  - Hierarchical systems can address the matrix-dominated failures of structural fiber polymer composites. Here, a new synergistic hierarchical structure combines conventional structural glass fibers with a bi-continuous silica-based aerogel matrix; both pure-silica and organically-modified silicate aerogels are demonstrated. When infused with an epoxy matrix, this type of hierarchical architecture showed a marked improvement in mechanical properties: without any loss in modulus, both the compressive strength and the interlaminar shear strength increased by up to 27%, relative to the equivalent glass-fiber reinforced epoxy composite baseline. The bi-continuous network modification strategy uses industrially-relevant infusion techniques, at or near room temperature, and retains a similar final composite density (within 2%). The strategy presented here provides a versatile and readily applicable means to improve state-of-the art continuous fiber reinforced composite systems in compression and offers an opportunity to develop a new generation of composite materials.
AU  - Anthony,DB
AU  - Nguyen,SN
AU  - Qian,H
AU  - Xu,S
AU  - Shaw,CMD
AU  - Greenhalgh,ES
AU  - Bismarck,A
AU  - Shaffer,MSP
DO  - 10.1016/j.coco.2023.101531
EP  - 7
PY  - 2023///
SN  - 2452-2139
SP  - 1
TI  - Silica aerogel infused hierarchical glass fiber polymer composites
T2  - Composites Communications
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coco.2023.101531
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/103115
VL  - 39
ER  -
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Professor Emile S Greenhalgh
Department of Aeronautics
Imperial College London
South Kensington Campus
London SW7 2AZ

+44 (0)7958 210 089
e.greenhalgh@imperial.ac.uk