High-Speed Nanomechanical Property Mapping of
Polyetherimide/Zinc Titanate Nanocomposites

Farooq Syed; Shaik Zainuddin; Mohamed Elafandi; Isaiah Wilson; Haibin Ning; Shaik Jeelani

Short Communication

High-Speed Nanomechanical Property Mapping of Polyetherimide/Zinc Titanate Nanocomposites

Farooq Syed₁, Shaik Zainuddin₁*, Mohamed Elafandi₁, Isaiah Wilson₁, Haibin Ning₂ and Shaik Jeelani₁

¹Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tuskegee University, USA

²Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Alabama Birmingham, USA

Corresponding Author

Received Date: August 01, 2019; Published Date: August 06, 2019

Abstract

Determination of mechanical properties of modern nanocomposite materials through conventional macroscale test methods is always challenging and questionable. Nanoparticles interact with polymer molecules at a micron to nanoscale, and hence to precisely determine the properties of these composites, micron level test methods such as nanoindentation need to be utilized. In this work, we have used the nanoindentation techniques combined with a recently developed novel accelerated property mapping (XPM) technique to study the statistical quantification of mechanical properties such as hardness and modulus, and the variance of these properties across the phases of polyetherimide (PEI) nanocomposites reinforced with 5, 10, 15 wt. % of zinc titanate (ZnTiO₃) nanoparticles.

Keywords: Zinc titanate; Polyetherimide; Nanoindentation; XPM

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Citation

Farooq Syed1, Shaik Zainuddin, Mohamed Elafandi, Isaiah Wilson, Haibin Ning, Shaik Jeelani. High-Speed Nanomechanical Property Mapping of Polyetherimide/Zinc Titanate Nanocomposites. Mod Concept Material Sci. 1(5): 2019. MCMS.MS.ID.000522.