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Physics-based and Data-driven Modeling of Electrically Conductive Polymer Nanocomposites

2025· dissertation· W7133083928 on OpenAlexaff
Mostafa Elaskalany

Bibliographic record

VenueTSpace · 2025
Typedissertation
Language
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicSmart Materials for Construction
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNanocompositePiezoresistive effectPolymer nanocompositeCarbon nanotubePercolation (cognitive psychology)Electrical conductorMultiscale modelingPolymerPercolation threshold
DOInot available

Abstract

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Polymer nanocomposites reinforced with carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have excellent mechanical, electrical, and electromechanical properties. Since the electrical properties vary with the mechanical applied load, interest in conducting polymer nanocomposite has increased due to their potential applications in strain sensing and structural health monitoring (SHM). An in-depth understanding of the structure-property relations of polymer nanocomposites reinforced with CNTs is needed to develop novel multifunctional materials. In this research program, a physics-based data-driven modeling framework capable of predicting the electrical and piezoresistive properties of CNT/polymer nanocomposites is developed. First, a physics-based stochastic multiscale model is developed using Monte Carlo simulations and representative volume elements. The developed numerical model is used to investigate the influence of the nanoscale parameters of CNTs and the microstructure of the nanocomposite on the percolation threshold, macroscopic electrical conductivity, and piezoresistivity of the CNT/polymer nanocomposites. Next, the numerical results from the developed numerical model are used to create representative datasets to train various machine learning models for efficient prediction of the nanocomposites properties. The developed framework is then used in the quantitative exploration of the structure-property relations of CNT/polymer nanocomposites to improve and accelerate the design of these multifunctional materials. The models developed in this research serve as tools for better understanding the underlying mechanisms of electrical conductivity and piezoresistivity in CNT/polymer nanocomposites. Moreover, the approaches used to develop these models can offer guidelines for modeling other multifunctional nanocomposites with embedded nanofillers. The insights gained from this research could be applied to SHM systems in modern structures like wind turbines, as well as within the aerospace and automotive sectors.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.481
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.027
GPT teacher head0.310
Teacher spread0.283 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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