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

@inproceedings{Qian:2015,
author = {Qian, H and Nguyen, S and Anthony, DB and Singh, A and Xu, S and Greenhalgh, E and Bismarck, A and Shaffer, M},
publisher = {iccm-central.org},
title = {Stiff monolithic aerogel matrices for structural fibre composites},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/31280},
year = {2015}
}
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RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Resorcinol-formaldehyde based aerogel precursors were infused into structural carbon fibreweaves, then gelled and carbonised to generate a continuous monolithic matrix network. Thishierarchical carbon preform was subsequently infused with polymeric resins, both multifunctional andstructural, to produce dense composites. The resulting hierarchical composites have a nanoscalereinforcement in the matrix at up to an order of magnitude higher loadings than typically available byother techniques. Compression, tension, ±45° shear and short beam tests demonstrate the potential ofsuch matrix systems to address matrix dominated failures. However, for the best structuralperformance it will be necessary to re-optimise the fibre-matrix interface, which is degraded by thecurrent processing regime.
AU  - Qian,H
AU  - Nguyen,S
AU  - Anthony,DB
AU  - Singh,A
AU  - Xu,S
AU  - Greenhalgh,E
AU  - Bismarck,A
AU  - Shaffer,M
PB  - iccm-central.org
PY  - 2015///
TI  - Stiff monolithic aerogel matrices for structural fibre composites
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/31280
ER  -
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Contact

Professor Emile S Greenhalgh
Department of Aeronautics
Imperial College London
South Kensington Campus
London SW7 2AZ

+44 (0)7958 210 089
e.greenhalgh@imperial.ac.uk