Interfacial mechanics and viscoelastic properties of patchy graphene oxide reinforced nanocomposites

Graphene oxide (GO) is a promising building block for nanocomposites due to its excellent mechanical properties and tunable interfacial interactions with polymers. While experiments have shown that GO sheets consist of graphitic regions clustering into patches and oxidized regions constituting the remaining areas, the role that these heterogeneous patches play on interfacial and mechanical properties of GO reinforced nanocomposites have not yet...