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Materials

Composites

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Projects and Programs

Cube test

Functional Barriers for Low-Flammability Products

Ongoing
This project enables low-flammability products without flame retardants by providing methods to assess functional barriers, advancing their performance, and exploring their use in multi-layer products for critical applications.

Hierarchical Materials

Ongoing
The STG develops the methods and metrology that will lead to the understanding of the structure-property relationships of hierarchical composites in real medical PPE or protective applications, which heretofore has been lacking. This work establishes in situ monitoring of advanced manufacturing...
complex oxides

Measurements of Point-Defect Chemistry in Complex Oxides

Ongoing
Project Goal: To develop magnetic resonance, x-ray absorption, electron diffraction, and electrical conductivity measurements to better characterize dilute concentrations of point defects in oxide materials and effectively correlate electro-mechanical properties to measured defect chemistry. Oxide...

Publications

Control of Dynamic Composites through Filler Surface Chemistry

Author(s)
Neil Dolinski, Lily Alperstein, Ran Tao, Anthony Kotula, Hojin Kim, Kyle Petersen, Elina Ghimire, Charlie Lindberg, Julia Murphy, Kexin Li, SJ Sibener, Aaron Forster, Stuart Rowan
The addition of hard fillers to polymeric networks allows for enhancement of mechanical properties, generally at the expense of extensibility. In the case of...

Tools and Instruments

Video clips of different Kolsky Bar tests performed at NIST

Pulse-Heated Kolsky Bar

This facility provides dynamic strength measurements in tension and compression at strain rates between 500 strain/s and 5000 strain/s with the option for rapid

Awards

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