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As a widely used engineering polymer, epoxy resin has been successfully employed in high-performance components and setups. However, the poor thermal and friction properties of traditional epoxy resin greatly limit its application in many extreme environments. In this work, a new kind of epoxy-Ti3C2 with three-dimensional nanosheets (3DNS) composite which was designed by freeze-drying method showed up excellent thermal and friction properties. As a result, the coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of epoxy-Ti3C2 3DNS 3.0 composites was 41.9 ppm/K at 40 °C, which was lower than that of the traditional epoxy resin (46.7 ppm/K), and the thermal conductivity (TC) was also improved from 0.176 to 0.262 W/(m·K). Meanwhile, epoxy-Ti3C2 3DNS 1.0 composites showed up the best friction property, with wear rate 76.3% lower than that of epoxy resin. This work is significant for the research of high-performance composite materials.
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The authors acknowledge the financial supports from the National Key R&D Program of China (2018YFA0703400), Excellent Young Scientists Fund of NSFC (51422502), Science Fund for Creative Research Groups of NSFC (51621064), Program for Creative Talents in University of Liaoning Province (LR2016006), and Distinguished Young Scholars for Science and Technology of Dalian City (2016RJ05).
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Faning MENG. He received his bachelor degree in mechanical engineering in 2015 from Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan, China. After then, he was a master student in Engineering Research Center Heavy Machinery Ministry of Education at the same university. Since 2018, he is a Ph.D. student in Dalian University of Technology, China. His research interests include ultra-precision machining technology.
Zhenyu ZHANG. He received his Ph.D. degree in solid mechanics from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in 2005. After then, he worked as a post-doctoral in the State Key Laboratory of Tribology at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He has been working in the Key Laboratory for Precision and Non-Traditional Machining Technology of Ministry of Education at Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, and his current position is a professor. His research areas cover ultra-precision grinding, chemical mechanical polishing, and nanoprecision surface manufacturing.
Tingting LIU. She received the Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from Curtin University, Australia, in 2017. After then, she joined Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science as a research fellow. She currently is a post-doctoral in School of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, China. Her research interests are applications of nanomaterials and chemical mechanical polishing.
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Meng, F., Zhang, Z., Gao, P. et al. Excellent tribological properties of epoxy—Ti3C2 with three-dimensional nanosheets composites. Friction 9, 734–746 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-020-0368-1
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