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A Review of Heat Dissipation and Absorption Technologies for Enhancing Performance in Photovoltaic–Thermal Systems

This review surveys heat dissipation and absorption technologies used in electronics and energy systems, evaluating passive cooling methods, phase-change materials, and advanced thermal interface materials. The authors assess emerging polymer-based thermal management composites as lightweight alternatives to metallic heat sinks in next-generation electronics.

2024 Energies 6 citations
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Design, Fabrication, and Properties of High Damping Metal Matrix Composites—A Review

This review covers the design and properties of metal matrix composites engineered for high vibration damping capacity, examining how to balance damping ability with mechanical strength. This materials engineering study has no connection to microplastics or environmental health.

2009 Materials 124 citations
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Microstructure Evaluation, Quantitative Phase Analysis, Strengthening Mechanism and Influence of Hybrid Reinforcements (β-SiCp, Bi and Sb) on the Collective Mechanical Properties of the AZ91 Magnesium Matrix

This materials science study examined how adding silicon carbide nanoparticles and trace metals affects the mechanical properties of an AZ91 magnesium alloy composite. The research has applications for lightweight structural materials used in automotive and aerospace engineering.

2021 Metals 16 citations
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Damage evolution in AA2124/SiC metal matrix composites under tension with consecutive unloadings

This engineering study investigated how aluminum-silicon carbide metal matrix composites deform and accumulate damage under tensile loading. It is a materials science paper not related to environmental microplastics.

2020 Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering 15 citations
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Effect of SiC Nanoparticles on AZ31 Magnesium Alloy

Silicon carbide nanoparticles were incorporated into AZ31 magnesium alloy to evaluate effects on mechanical properties, finding that nanoparticle addition improved hardness, tensile strength, and wear resistance compared to the unreinforced alloy. The results support SiC-reinforced magnesium as a candidate lightweight structural material for automotive and aerospace applications.

2022 Materials 58 citations
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Modernizations of graphene nanocomposites using synthesis strategies—State-of-the-art

This review examines the synthesis strategies used to modernize graphene nanocomposites, covering the combination of graphene with thermoplastic, conducting, and other matrices to achieve desired material properties. The authors survey fabrication methods and practical applications of graphene nanostructures across engineering domains.

2024 Characterization and Application of Nanomaterials
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Winter Annual Meeting of ASME

This engineering paper uses computer simulations to study the deformation behavior of silicon carbide fiber-reinforced titanium metal matrix composites. This aerospace materials study has no connection to microplastics or environmental health.

1992 OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) 175 citations
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Eco-Design of Polymer Matrix Composite Parts: A Review

This review examines eco-design principles applied to polymer matrix composite parts, covering the environmental impacts of composites across their lifecycle from design and manufacturing through to recycling and end-of-life. The review emphasizes sustainable approaches including waste minimization, recyclability, and the use of bio-based or recycled materials.

2023 Polymers 23 citations
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Recyclability and Embodied Energy of Advanced Polymer Matrix Composites

This paper examines the recyclability and embodied energy of advanced polymer matrix composites used in aerospace and automotive applications. Improving recycling of carbon fiber composites prevents these materials from becoming persistent microplastic debris when components reach end of life.

2023
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Enhancing Material Performance: A Review of Magnesium-Based Metal Matrix Composites

Despite its title referencing composite materials, this paper studies magnesium-based metal matrix composites for aerospace and defence applications — not microplastic pollution. It reviews how various reinforcing materials affect the mechanical and tribological properties of magnesium alloys, and is not relevant to microplastics or human health.

2025 Journal of Manufacturing Engineering 1 citations
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High-Temperature Solid Lubricants and Self-Lubricating Composites: A Critical Review

This review examined high-temperature solid lubricants and self-lubricating composites used in extreme conditions such as aerospace and metallurgy, covering material properties, mechanisms, and recent advances in reducing friction and wear at elevated temperatures.

2022 Lubricants 166 citations
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Physicochemical and Antibacterial Properties of Ceramic Membranes Based on Silicon Carbide

Researchers synthesised silicon carbide-based ceramic membranes and characterised their mechanical, electrical, and antibacterial properties, finding that carbonate type and liquid glass addition influenced phase composition and surface properties including hydrophilicity and negative surface charge.

2024 1 citations
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Material strength and inelastic deformation of silicon carbide under shock wave compression

This shock physics study measured the strength and deformation of silicon carbide ceramic under extreme compressive stress, finding it maintains very high shear strength even above its elastic limit. This is a materials engineering study on advanced ceramics under shock loading with no relevance to environmental microplastics.

1998 Journal of Applied Physics 74 citations