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James D. Randall

Researcher at Deakin University

Publications -  24
Citations -  452

James D. Randall is an academic researcher from Deakin University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Surface modification & Fiber. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 17 publications receiving 223 citations.

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Electrochemical surface modification of carbon fibres by grafting of amine, carboxylic and lipophilic amide groups

TL;DR: In this paper, the surface of carbon fiber was rapidly modified by reductive electrochemical deposition employing a range of diazonium salts, and three sets of fibre were generated possessing pendant amine, carboxylic acid, and lipophilic amide (N-hexyl amide) groups.
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Designing carbon fiber composite interfaces using a ‘graft-to’ approach: Surface grafting density versus interphase penetration

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effect on interfacial shear strength (IFSS) when grafting polyethyleneoxide (PEO) polymers of various molecular weights to a carbon fiber surface.
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An efficient high-throughput grafting procedure for enhancing carbon fiber-to-matrix interactions in composites

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that simply impregnating carbon fibers with aryl diazonium salts and subjecting them to external stimuli, such as mild heating (100°C), can induce surface modification which can deliver improvements of up to 150% in interfacial shear strength (IFSS) in epoxy resins.
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Using molecular entanglement as a strategy to enhance carbon fiber-epoxy composite interfaces

TL;DR: The tethering of an amphiphilic molecule to the surface of carbon fiber resulted in significant (+283%) improvements in interfacial shear strength and was confirmed by the synthesis and grafting of such a molecule to a carbon fiber surface as mentioned in this paper.