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From carbon nanotubes and silicate layers to graphene platelets for polymer nanocomposites
In spite of extensive studies conducted on carbon nanotubes and silicate layers for their polymer-based nanocomposites, the rise of graphene now provides a more promising candidate due to its exceptionally high mechanical performance and electrical and thermal conductivities. The present study developed a facile approach to fabricate epoxyâgraphene nanocomposites by thermally expanding a commercial product followed by ultrasonication and solution-compounding with epoxy, and investigated their morphologies, mechanical properties, electrical conductivity and thermal mechanical behaviour. Graphene platelets (GnPs) of 3.5
Two-Hop Connectivity to the Roadside in a VANET Under the Random Connection Model
We compute the expected number of cars that have at least one two-hop path to
a fixed roadside unit in a one-dimensional vehicular ad hoc network in which
other cars can be used as relays to reach a roadside unit when they do not have
a reliable direct link. The pairwise channels between cars experience Rayleigh
fading in the random connection model, and so exist, with probability function
of the mutual distance between the cars, or between the cars and the roadside
unit. We derive exact equivalents for this expected number of cars when the car
density tends to zero and to infinity, and determine its behaviour using
an infinite oscillating power series in , which is accurate for all
regimes. We also corroborate those findings to a realistic situation, using
snapshots of actual traffic data. Finally, a normal approximation is discussed
for the probability mass function of the number of cars with a two-hop
connection to the origin. The probability mass function appears to be well
fitted by a Gaussian approximation with mean equal to the expected number of
cars with two hops to the origin.Comment: 21 pages, 7 figure
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