Mechanical properties and fracture behaviors of epoxy composites with multi-scale rubber particles

In this work, we developed a strategy to balance the toughness and thermal resistance of epoxy composites by incorporating the multi-scale rubber particles. Two types of rubber i.e. the phase-separation-formed submicron liquid rubber (LR) and preformed nano-scale powered rubber (PR) particles were chosen as tougheners. It was found that the combination of these multi-scale rubber particles not only provides superior efficiency in enhancing the...