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SUBMITTER: Anagnostopoulos G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4370368 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Anagnostopoulos George G Androulidakis Charalampos C Koukaras Emmanuel N EN Tsoukleri Georgia G Polyzos Ioannis I Parthenios John J Papagelis Konstantinos K Galiotis Costas C
ACS applied materials & interfaces 20150216 7
The stress transfer mechanism from a polymer substrate to a nanoinclusion, such as a graphene flake, is of extreme interest for the production of effective nanocomposites. Previous work conducted mainly at the micron scale has shown that the intrinsic mechanism of stress transfer is shear at the interface. However, since the interfacial shear takes its maximum value at the very edge of the nanoinclusion it is of extreme interest to assess the effect of edge integrity upon axial stress transfer a ...[more]