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A Cellular Automata Approach for the Modeling of a Polyamide and Carbon Aerogel Structure and Its Properties

In this work, a cellular automata (CA) approach was used to generate 3D structures of polyamide and carbon aerogels. Experimental results are used as initial data for materials’ digital representations and to verify the developed CA models. Based on the generated digital structures, a computer study...

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Autores principales: Menshutina, Natalia, Lebedev, Igor, Lebedev, Evgeniy, Paraskevopoulou, Patrina, Chriti, Despoina, Mitrofanov, Igor
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7709703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33081053
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/gels6040035
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Sumario:In this work, a cellular automata (CA) approach was used to generate 3D structures of polyamide and carbon aerogels. Experimental results are used as initial data for materials’ digital representations and to verify the developed CA models. Based on the generated digital structures, a computer study of aerogels’ mechanical properties was conducted. The offered CA models can be applied for the development of new nanoporous materials such as aerogels of different nature and allow for a reduction in the amount of required full-scale experiments, consequently decreasing development time and costs of new material formulations.