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Effects of silver nanowires and their surface modification on electromagnetic interference, transport and mechanical properties of an aerospace grade epoxy
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2024) Özkutlu Demirel, Merve; Öztürkmen, Mahide B; Savaş, Müzeyyen; Mutlugün, Evren; Erdem, Talha; Öz, Yahya; 0000-0003-0390-1819; 0000-0003-3715-5594; 0000-0003-3905-376X; AGÜ, Mühendislik Fakültesi, Elektrik - Elektronik Mühendisliği Bölümü; Savaş, Müzeyyen; Mutlugün, Evren; Erdem, Talha
The aerospace industry has progressively grown its use of composites. Electrically conductive nanocomposites are among important modern materials for this sector. We report on a bulk composite containing silver nanowires (AgNW) and an aerospace grade epoxy for use in carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRPs). AgNWs’ surfaces were also modified to enhance their ability to be dispersed in epoxy. Composites were obtained by use of three-roll milling which is of major interest for industrial applications, especially for the aerospace sector, since the process is scalable and works for aerospace grade resins with high curing temperatures. Our main objective is to improve the electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding performance of CFRPs via improving the properties of the resin material. The addition of AgNWs did not considerably alter the flexural strength of the epoxy, however the composite with surface-modified AgNWs has a 46 % higher flexural strength. Adding AgNWs over a low threshold concentration of 0.05 wt% significantly enhanced the electrical conductivity. Conductivities above the percolation threshold lie around 102 S/m. At a concentration of 5 wt% AgNW, the EMI shielding efficiency (SE) of epoxy increased from 3.49 to 12.31 dB. Moreover, the thermal stability of the epoxy was unaffected by AgNWs. As a result, it was discovered that (surface modified) AgNWs improved the (multifunctional) capabilities of the aerospace grade epoxy resin which might be used in CFRPs to further enhance properties of composites parts, demonstrating suitability of AgNWs’ as a reinforcement material in aerospace applications.
Fabrication and novel applications of light-absorbing optoelectronic devices
(Abdullah Gül Üniversitesi, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, 2022) Savaş, Müzeyyen; AGÜ, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Elektrik ve Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Ana Bilim Dalı
Fabrication of optoelectronic devices relies on expensive, energy-consuming conventional tools including chemical vapor deposition, lithography, and metal evaporation. Developing an alternative technology would contribute to the efforts on achieving a sustainable optoelectronics technology. Keeping this in our focus, here we present a simple technique to fabricate visible photodetectors. These fully solutionprocessed and transparent metal-semiconductor-metal photodetectors employ silver nanowires (Ag NW) as the transparent electrodes replacing the indium-tin-oxide (ITO) commonly used in optoelectronic devices. By repeatedly spin coating Ag NW on a glass substrate followed by the coating of ZnO nanoparticles, we obtained a highly conductive transparent electrode reaching a sheet resistance of 95 Ω/□. The transmittance of the Ag NW-ZnO films was 84% at 450 nm while the transmittance of the ITO films was 90% at the same wavelength. Following the formation of the conductive film, we scratched it using a heated surgical blade to open a gap which is ~30 µm forming an insulating line. As the active layer, we drop-casted red-emitting CdSe/ZnS core-shell colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) onto this gap. These visible CQDbased photodetectors exhibited responsivities and detectivities up to 8.5 mA/W and 0.95x109 Jones, respectively. These proof-of-concept photodetectors show that the environmentally friendly, low-cost, and energy-saving technique presented here can be an alternative to conventional, high-cost, and energy-hungry techniques while fabricating light-harvesting devices