A great improvement of tensile properties of Cf/AZ91D composite through grafting CNTs onto the surface of the carbon fibers

Effective load transfer interface is critical to improving the performance of metal matrix composites (MMCs). This paper proposes fabricating CNTs-grafted Cf/AZ91D composites in which the carbon fiber surface was grafted with the carbon nanotubes (CNTs) through electrophoretic deposition (EPD) process. The influence of microstructure on tensile properties of the composites was investigated by designing different experimental parameters. The...