Effect of Nanomaterials on Tribological and Mechanical Properties of Polymer Nanocomposite Materials

Table 1

Tensile testing results of different nanocomposites.

Nanocomposites	Young’s modulus (GPa)	Tensile strength (MPa)	Ref.
Neat DGEBA epoxy	2.71 ± 0.11	72.06 ± 1.37	[53]
2 wt.% Na+/DGEBA epoxy	2.79 ± 0.07	68.04 ± 4	[53]
5 wt.% Na+/DGEBA epoxy	2.92 ± 0.17	57.2 ± 2.22	[53]
10 wt.% Na+/DGEBA epoxy	3.44 ± 0.29	57.68 ± 3.69	[53]
2 wt.% C30B/DGEBA epoxy	3.11 ± 0.09	62.19 ± 2.56	[53]
5 wt.% C30B/DGEBA epoxy	3.10 ± 0.08	58.35 ± 5.87	[53]
10 wt.% C30B/DGEBA epoxy	3.12 ± 0.23	57.31 ± 6.97	[53]
2 wt.% NI.30E/DGEBA epoxy	2.68 ± 0.26	64.58 ± 6.56	[53]
5 wt.% NI.30E/DGEBA epoxy	2.82 ± 0.12	59.94 ± 9.01	[53]
10 wt.% NI.30E/DGEBA epoxy	3.04 ± 0.11	58.23 ± 4.39	[53]
2 wt.% CPC/DGEBA epoxy	2.57 ± 0.15	49.03 ± 2.72	[53]
5 wt.% CPC/DGEBA epoxy	2.79 ± 0.08	50.14 ± 2.80	[53]
Neat DGEBA epoxy/carbon fiber	46.5 ± 0.6	848 ± 18.2	[54]
5 wt.% CSCNT/DGEBA epoxy/carbon fiber	47.9 ± 0.7	844 ± 5.3	[54]
10 wt.% CSCNT/DGEBA epoxy/carbon fiber	48.3 ± 1.7	850 ± 40.0	[54]
Neat DGEBA epoxy/basalt fiber	27.65 ± 0.41	584.7 ± 10.3	[55]
0.5 wt.% raw MWCNT/DGEBA epoxy/basalt fiber	27.44 ± 0.76	564.0 ± 31.0	[55]
0.5 wt.% o-MWCNT(acid treated)/DGEBA epoxy/basalt fiber	30.41 ± 1.31	635.7 ± 33.8	[55]
0.5 wt.% PGE-MWCNT(phenyl glycidyl ether added)/DGEBA epoxy/basalt fiber	29.92 ± 0.83	608.8 ± 20.0	[55]
1.5 wt.% raw MWCNT/DGEBA epoxy/basalt fiber	28.53 ± 1.18	504.0 ± 42.0	[55]
1.5 wt.% o-MWCNT/DGEBA epoxy/basalt fiber	36.4 ± 0.97	627.7 ± 25.5	[55]
1.5 wt.% PGE-MWCNT/DGEBA epoxy/basalt fiber	34.90 ± 0.77	615.1 ± 19.7	[55]
1.25 wt.% attapulgite clay(ATT)/DGEBA epoxy/basalt fiber	29.85 ± 1.03	530.9 ± 43.4	[55]
2.5 wt.% ATT/DGEBA epoxy/basalt fiber	28.06 ± 2.62	465.4 ± 94.5	[55]
Neat poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) polyclear-machine direction (MD)	2.0 ± 0.1	62.6 ± 0.7	[56]
1 wt.% MWCNT/PET-MD	2.25 ± 0.07	66.9 ± 0.8	[56]
2 wt.% MWCNT/PET- MD	2.57 ± 0.08	72.5 ± 0.2	[56]
4 wt.% MWCNT/PET- MD	2.80 ± 0.32	89.1 ± 4.2	[56]
Neat PET-transverse direction (TD)	1.93 ± 0.01	59.0 ± 1.2	[56]
1 wt.% MWCNT/PET- TD	2.13 ± 0.08	65.4 ± 0.7	[56]
2 wt.% MWCNT/PET- TD	2.34 ± 0.20	68.2 ± 1.0	[56]
4 wt.% MWCNT/PET- TD	2.75 ± 0.08	76.5 ± 0.8	[56]
Neat DGEBA epoxy	3062 ± 47	80.3 ± 0.8	[57]
10 wt.% Somasif M-100/DGEBA epoxy	4719 ± 130	51.5 ± 1.4	[57]