Towards high performance in Ti-based composite through manipulating nickel coatings on graphene reinforcement

Graphene nanoflakes (GNFs) surface metallization is a potential method to simultaneously achieve homogeneous GNFs dispersion and suitable interfacial bonding in metal matrix composites (MMCs). In this study, the effect of nickel coating microstructure of GNFs on strengthening titanium matrix composites (TMCs) was investigated. To this end, nickel-coated graphene nanoflakes (Ni-GNFs) with two different states were produced via electroless...