Abstract
Advances in the nanotechnology have been actively applied to the field of aerospace engineering where there is a constant necessity of high durable material with low density and better thermo-mechanical properties. Over the past decade, carbon nanotubes-based composites are widely utilised owing to its fascinating properties resulting in series of multidisciplinary industrial applications. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are rolled up sheets of carbon in nanoscale which offers excellent thermal and mechanical properties at lower density which makes them suitable reinforcement for composites in aerospace applications. Owing to its high Young’s modulus and chemically inert behaviour, CNTs are forefront of material research with applications varying from water purification to aerospace applications where applicational sector remains a mystery. Although there has been numerous research on the CNTs-based materials, there are only limited studies focusing on its utilisation for the field of aerospace engineering. As a result, in this review, we intend to cover the processing and synthesis techniques, thermal and mechanical properties as well as few industrial applications of CNTs-reinforced ceramic composites. Further, any potential development in additive manufacturing-based technique for fabricating CNT/ceramics and its applications in aerospace industries have been highlighted.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3923-3953 |
| Number of pages | 31 |
| Journal | Journal of Materials Science |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| Early online date | 13 Dec 2021 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Feb 2022 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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One of the authors Karthikeyan Ramachandran would like to acknowledge Kingston University, London, for funding his Ph.D. research. Interest towards the field of nanotechnology remains elevated in several disciplines of science due to its higher potential in areas involving engineering, agriculture and medicine. While the term “nanotechnology” has no approved definition, the products of nanotechnology are said to be measured at least less than 100 nm in any one dimension []. Being a specific component of nanotechnology, nanomaterials have attracted various researchers owing to its promising properties in mechanical, thermal and electronic disciplines. The multidisciplinary expansion of the nanomaterials depended on the support from industrial and academic sectors which included extremely funded research projects including National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) by US government in 2001. The NNI research supported the commercialisation, development and research on the field of nanotechnology with a budget of more than a $1 billion []. Over past few decades, discovery and analysis on the properties of the nanomaterials have gained constant worldwide growth [].
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Materials Science
- Mechanics of Materials
- Mechanical Engineering