Highlights

This is a selection of publications from the Structural Power Composites Group. For a full list of publications, please see below.

Highlights

Structural power phone

Massless energy

‘Massless’ energy for future electric vehicles using multifunctional structural power composites
Structural supercapacitor citation map

Structural supercapacitors review

A critical review of structural supercapacitors and outlook on future research challenges
Structural power plane

Structural power in electric aircraft

Structural Power Performance Targets for Future Electric Aircraft
Recent progress in free-standing supercapacitors

Free-standing supercapacitors

Challenges and opportunities in free-standing supercapacitors research
CNT-infiltrated CF

CF-CNT structural supercapacitors

Robust Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube-Infiltrated Carbon Fiber Electrodes for Structural Supercapacitors

Model Car

Multifunctional performance

Mechanical, electrochemical and multifunctional performance of a CFRP/carbon aerogel structural supercapacitor
Student operates flight simulator in the Department of Aeronautics

Structural power in aircraft cabins

Conceptual Multifunctional Design, Feasibility and Requirements for Structural Power in Aircraft Cabins

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Nguyen:2024:10.1016/j.compscitech.2023.110339,
author = {Nguyen, S and Anthony, DB and Katafiasz, T and Qi, G and Razavi, S and Senokos, E and Greenhalgh, ES and Shaffer, MSP and Kucernak, ARJ and Linde, P},
doi = {10.1016/j.compscitech.2023.110339},
journal = {Composites Science and Technology},
title = {Manufacture and characterisation of a structural supercapacitor demonstrator},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compscitech.2023.110339},
volume = {245},
year = {2024}
}
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RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - JOUR
AB  - Structural power composites, a class of multifunctional materials, may facilitate lightweighting and accelerate widespread electrification of sustainable transportation. In the example considered in this paper, structural power composite fuselage components could provide power to open aircraft doors in an emergency and thus reduce or eliminate the mass and volume needed for supercapacitors currently mounted on the doors. To demonstrate this concept, an 80 cm long multifunctional composite C-section beam was designed and manufactured, which powered the opening and closing of a desktop-scale composite aircraft door. Twelve structural supercapacitor cells were made, each 30 cm × 15 cm × 0.5 mm, and two stacks of four cells were integrated into the web of the beam by interleaving and encasing them with low-temperature-cure woven carbon fibre/epoxy prepreg. This article culminates by considering the engineering challenges that need to be addressed to realise structural power composite components, particularly in an aerospace context.
AU  - Nguyen,S
AU  - Anthony,DB
AU  - Katafiasz,T
AU  - Qi,G
AU  - Razavi,S
AU  - Senokos,E
AU  - Greenhalgh,ES
AU  - Shaffer,MSP
AU  - Kucernak,ARJ
AU  - Linde,P
DO  - 10.1016/j.compscitech.2023.110339
PY  - 2024///
SN  - 0266-3538
TI  - Manufacture and characterisation of a structural supercapacitor demonstrator
T2  - Composites Science and Technology
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compscitech.2023.110339
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/108340
VL  - 245
ER  -
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Professor Emile S Greenhalgh
Department of Aeronautics
Imperial College London
South Kensington Campus
London SW7 2AZ

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e.greenhalgh@imperial.ac.uk