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Plasma Polypyrrole Coated Hybrid Composites with Improved Mechanical and Electrical Properties for Aerospace Applications

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This paper deals with the dielectric barrier discharge assisted continuous plasma polypyrrole deposition on CNT-grafted carbon fibers for conductive composite applications. The simultaneous effects of three controllable factors have been studied on the electrical resistivity (ER) of these two material systems based on multivariate experimental design methodology. A posterior probability referring to Benjamini-Hochberg (BH) false discovery rate was explored as multiple testing corrections of the t-test p values. BH significance threshold of 0.05 was produced truly statistically significant coefficients to describe ER of two material systems. A group of plasma modified samples was chosen to be used for composite manufacturing to drive an assessment of interlaminar shear properties under static loading. Transversal and longitudinal electrical resistivity (DC, ω =0) of composite samples were studied to compare both the effects of CNT grafting and plasma modification on ER of resultant composites.

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This research was supported under EADS FRANCE ANR PROCOM Project (contact grant no. ANR-08-MAPR-0025). The financial support from French Government (CNOUS 20082966 for H. Yavuz) gratefully acknowledged. We thank Mme. Françoise Garnier from ECP Lab. MSSMat for collecting SEM images.

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Yavuz, H., Bai, J. Plasma Polypyrrole Coated Hybrid Composites with Improved Mechanical and Electrical Properties for Aerospace Applications. Appl Compos Mater 25, 661–674 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10443-017-9644-2

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