Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

   Bregman, A., Hernandez, P., Reyes, A., Oluwalowo, A., Sweat, R., Nicholas, J., & Treadwell, L. (2024). Thermomechanical performance and multiscale modeling of hexagonal boron nitride modified out-of-autoclave manufactured silica fiber reinforced phenolic composites. Advanced Composite Materials. doi:10.1080/09243046.2023.2300590

   Li, H., Shahriari, L., Khandwani, Y., Talevich, S., Reyes, A., Sweat, R., Mao, K., Scammell, L., Whitney, R., Park, J., Wu, Q., Liang, Z., & Yu, Z. (2023). Polymer Derived Silicon Carbide and Boron Nitride Nanotube Composites with High Thermal Shock Resistance. ACS Applied Engineering Materials.

   De Leon, A., Vanli, A., & Sweat, R. (2023). Data-driven Analysis of Carbon Nanotube Yarn Interfacial Bonding in Extreme Environments. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology. doi:10.1007/s00170-023-12523-6

   Davis, M., Tank, M., O'Rourke, M., Wadsworth, M., Yu, Z., & Sweat, R. (2023). Digital Twin Modeling of Flexible Perovskite Nano-Films with  In-Situ Mechanical Microscopy Validation. Nanomaterials, 13(2388). doi:doi.org/10.3390/nano13172388

   Bruce, J., Guvvala, N., Rudd, R., Tank, M., De Leon, A., Kim, C. H., Pamidi, S., Sweat, R., & Cheetham, P. (2023). Novel Electrical Insulation Coatings for HTS Cables. IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 33(5). doi:10.1109/TASC.2023.3257772

   De Leon, A., & Sweat, R. (2023). Interfacial Engineering of CFRP Composites and Temperature Effects: A Review. Mechanics of Composite Materials, 59(3), 419-440. doi:10.1007/s11029-023-10106-w

   Patadia, M., Tank, M., De Leon, A., & Sweat, R. D. (2023). Digital Twins of High Aspect Ratio Wavy Nanotube Composite Performance for Model-Informed Manufacturing. Scripta Materialia, 226, 115192:1-6. doi:10.1016/j.scriptamat.2022.115192

   Sohail, T., Sweat, R., Lu, H., Baughman, R., & Roy, S. (2023). Prediction of Interfacial Shear Strength of CNT Overwrapped Carbon Fibers using Molecular Dynamics and Fourier Series Decomposition of Surface Asperities. Composite Interfaces. doi:10.1080/09276440.2023.2180842.

   Singh, S., Moxey, D., Mason, S., Sweat, R., Plunkett, E., Moore, R., & Arnett, N. (2023). Solvent induced effect on morphology and properties of disulfonated polyarylene ether sulfone block copolymer membranes for PEMFC applications. Polymer, 267, 125626: 1-8. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2022.125626

   Tank, M., De Leon, A., Huang, W., Patadia, M., Degraff, J., & Sweat, R. D. (2023). Manufacturing of Stereolithographic 3D Printed Boron Nitride Nanotube-Reinforced Ceramic Composites with Improved Thermal and Mechanical Performance. Functional Composites and Structures, 5(1), 015001. doi:10.1088/2631-6331/acb12a

   Davis, M., Sweat, R., & Yu, Z. (2022). Predictive Modeling of Cracking Behaviors in Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells. IEEE Journal on Flexible Electronics, 2768-167X, 1-4. doi:10.1109/JFLEX.2022.3221706

   Tank, M., & Sweat, R. (2022). Boron Nitride Nanotube (BNNT) and its Composites: A Review. Materials Performance and Characterization, 11(1), 1-35. doi:10.1520/MPC20220042

   Tank, M., Reyes, A., Park, J. G., Scammell, L., Smith, M., De Leon, A., & Sweat, R. (2022). Extreme Thermal Stability and Dissociation Mechanisms of Purified Boron Nitride Nanotubes: Implications for High-Temperature Nanocomposites. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 5(9), 12444–12453. doi:10.1021/acsanm.2c01965

   De Leon, A., Tank, M., & Sweat, R. (2022). A Scalable Fiber Bundle Pullout Manufacturing Method for Data-Driven Interfacial Shear Strength Measurement of Micro and Nanomaterials. Composites Science and Technology, 222, 109375: 1-10. doi:10.1016/j.compscitech.2022.109375

   Roy, S., Sohail, T., Nakarmi, S., Sweat, R., Baughman, R., & Lu, H. (2022). Simulation of Surface Asperities on a Carbon Fiber using Molecular Dynamics and Fourier Series Decomposition to Predict Interfacial Shear Strength in Polymer Matrix Composites. Composite Interfaces, 29(8), 947-970. doi:10.1080/09276440.2022.2029314

   Song, N., Jackson, M., Montgomery, C., Wu, S., Jain, N., Sweat, R., & Souza, F. (2021). Using Multiscale Modeling to Advance Industrial and Research Applications of Advanced Materials. International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering. doi:10.1615/IntJMultCompEng.2021039707

   Akintola, T. M., Tran, P., Sweat, R., & Dickens, T. (2021). Thermomechanical Multifunctionality in 3D-Printed Polystyrene-Boron Nitride Nanotubes (BNNT) Composites. Journal of Composites Science, 5(2), 61. doi:10.3390/jcs5020061

   Sweat, R., Park, J. G., & Liang, R. (2020). A Digital Twin Approach to a Quantitative Microstructure-Property Study of Carbon Fibers through HRTEM Characterization and Multiscale FEA. Materials, 13(19). doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13194231

   Xu, H., Drozdov, G., Hourahine, B., Park, J. G., Sweat, R., Frauenheim, T., & Dumitrica, T. (2019). Collapsed carbon nanotubes: From nano to mesoscale via density functional theory-based tight-binding objective molecular modeling. Carbon, 143, 786-792. doi:10.1016/j.carbon.2018.11.068

   Jolowsky, C., Sweat, R., Park, J. G., Hao, A., & Liang, R. (2018). Microstructure evolution and self-assembling of CNT networks during mechanical stretching and mechanical properties of highly aligned CNT composites. Composites Science and Technology, 166, 125-130. doi:10.1016/j.compscitech.2018.04.003

   Yang, J., Downes, R., Schrand, A., Park, J. G., Liang, R., & Xu, C. (2016). High electrical conductivity and anisotropy of aligned carbon nanotube nanocomposites reinforced by silicon carbonitride. Scripta Materialia, 124, 21-25. doi:10.1016/j.scriptamat.2016.06.023

   Yang, J., Downes, R., Yu, Z., Park, J. G., Liang, R., & Xu, C. (2016). Strong and Ultra-flexible Polymer-Derived Silicon Carbonitride Nanocomposites by Aligned Carbon Nanotubes. Ceramics International, 42, 13359-13367. doi:10.1016/j.ceramint.2016.05.078

   Su, Yi-Feng, Park, J. G., Koo, A., Trayner, S., Hao, A., Downes, R., & Liang, R. (2016). Characterization at Atomic Resolution of Carbon Nanotube/Resin Interface in Nanocomposites by Mapping sp 2-Bonding States Using Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 22(03), 666-672. doi:10.1017/S1431927616000805

   Downes, R., Hao, A., Park, J. G., Su, Yi-Feng, Liang, R., Jensen, B., Siochi, E., & Wise, K. (2015). Geometrically constrained self-assembly and crystal packing of flattened and aligned carbon nanotubes. Carbon, 93, 953-966. doi:10.1016/j.carbon.2015.06.012

   Trayner, S., Hao, A., Downes, R., Park, J. G., Su, Yi-Feng, & Liang, R. (2015). High-resolution TEM analysis of flattened carbon nanotube packing in nanocomposites. Synthetic Metals, 204, 103-109. doi:10.1016/j.synthmet.2015.03.005

   Wang, S., Downes, R., Young, C., Haldane, D., Hao, A., Liang, R., Wang, B., Zhang, C., & Maskell, R. (2015). Carbon Fiber/Carbon Nanotube Buckypaper Interply Hybrid Composites: Manufacturing Process and Tensile Properties. Advanced Engineering Materials, 17(10). doi:10.1002/adem.201500034

   Li, Z., Downes, R., & Liang, Z. (2014). In Situ Polymerized pCBT Composites with Aligned Carbon Nanotube Buckypaper: Structure and Properties. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 216(3), 292-300. doi:10.1002/macp.201400443

   Downes, R., Wang, S., Haldane, D., Moench, A., & Liang, R. (2014). Strain-Induced Alignment Mechanisms of Carbon Nanotube Networks. Advanced Engineering Materials, 17(3). doi:10.1002/adem.201400045