Highlights

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

Highlights

Electrical performance of carbon fibre electrodes

The electrical response of carbon fibre reinforced electrodes in structural power composites under cyclic compaction.

Structural supercapacitor demonstrator

Manufacture and characterisation of a structural supercapacitor demonstrator.

Electrochemical performance of carbon fibre electrodes

Electrochemical performance of supercapacitor electrodes based on carbon aerogel-reinforced spread tow fabrics

Multifunctional design

Multifunctional design, feasibility and requirements for structural power composites in future electric air taxis.

Current collector design strategies

Current collector design strategies: The route to realising scale-up of structural power composites.
Model Car

Multifunctional performance

Mechanical, electrochemical and multifunctional performance of a CFRP/carbon aerogel structural supercapacitor
Structural power plane

Structural power in electric aircraft

Structural Power Performance Targets for Future Electric Aircraft

Silica aerogel

Silica aerogel infused hierarchical glass fiber polymer composites
CNT-infiltrated CF

CF-CNT structural supercapacitors

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

Structural power phone

Massless energy

‘Massless’ energy for future electric vehicles using multifunctional structural power composites

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},
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
ER  -
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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