Fabrication of fiber-reinforced polymer ceramic composites by wet electrospinning

Yunzhi Xu; Junior Ndayikengurukiye; Ange Therese Akono; Ping Guo

doi:10.1016/j.mfglet.2021.07.017

Fabrication of fiber-reinforced polymer ceramic composites by wet electrospinning

Yunzhi Xu, Junior Ndayikengurukiye, Ange Therese Akono^*, Ping Guo

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Abstract

We propose a novel approach of wet electrospinning to yield fiber-reinforced polymer ceramic composites, where a reactive ceramic precursor gel is used as a collector. We illustrate our approach by generating polyethylene oxide (PEO) fibers in a potassium silicate gel; the gel is later activated using metakaolin to yield a ceramic-0.5 wt% PEO fiber composite. An increase of 29% and 22% is recorded for the fabricated polymer ceramic composites in terms of indentation modulus and indentation hardness respectively. Our initial findings demonstrate the process viability and might lead to a potentially scalable manufacturing approach for fiber-reinforced polymer ceramic composites.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	91-95
Number of pages	5
Journal	Manufacturing Letters
Volume	31
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mfglet.2021.07.017
State	Accepted/In press - 2021

Funding

This work is partially supported by AECC-BIAM ( BIAM2020S1 ) till Jan 17, 2021. We acknowledge support from the NSF grant CMMI 1829101 that has supported Junior Nadikengurukiye through the REU mechanism.

Keywords

Ceramic composite
Fiber-reinforced
Precursor gel
Wet electrospinning

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Mechanics of Materials
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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