Journal
COMPOSITES PART A-APPLIED SCIENCE AND MANUFACTURING
Volume 41, Issue 5, Pages 624-631Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2010.01.009
Keywords
Polymer-matrix composites (PMCs); Fibers; Interphase; Mechanical properties
Funding
- National Research Initiative of the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service [2005-02645]
- USDA Wood Utilization Research
- Natural Science Foundation of China [30928022]
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Contact-resonance force microscopy (CR-FM) has been used for the first time to evaluate the mechanical properties of the interphase in natural fiber-reinforced composites and of cell wall layers of natural fibers. With CR-FM, quantitative images of the spatial distribution in nanoscale elastic properties were acquired. The images were calibrated with nanoindentation values. From the modulus images, the average interphase width was found to be (49 +/- 5) nm for composite without any treatment, and (139 +/- 21) nm for one with a maleic anhydride polypropylene treatment. There was a gradient of modulus across the interphase that ranged between the values of fiber and the polymer. The average values of indentation modulus obtained for different cell wall layers within a fiber were 22.5-28.0 GPa, 17.9-20.2 GPa, and 15.0-15.5 GPa for the S-2 and S-1 layers and the compound middle lamellae, respectively. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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