6th International Conference on Carbon NanoParticle Based Composites

CNPComp2013 continues a series of successful conferences on carbon based nanocomposites that originated from the European research network CNT-NET and has been held every two years alternating between Hamburg and Cambridge, the base towns of the two main initiators of the conference series. Due to the upcoming retirement of Karl Schulte, the conference ‘moves up the Elbe river’ and the meetings in Germany will be organized in Dresden from now on. Topics include: Processing and characterisation of CNPs,Dispersion in different matrices,Surface treatment,  functionalization, and interphase behaviour, Preparation and processing of composites and blends, Hybrid filler systems, Hierachical nanostructured composites, Modelling of CNPs and composites, Properties: electrical, mechanical, thermal, and optical, Applications

SPG Members presented a poster entitled « Real-time health monitoring of composite materials with conductive polymer  nanocomposite piezo-resistive interphase sensors »  (Suvam Nag Chowdhury, I. Pillin, M. Castro, P. Longrais, J. F. Feller)

Picture: Suvam and Pr. Chris Macosko from CEMS-Polymer Group, University of Minnesota.