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          Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers (CFRPs) are widely used where high mechanical performance and lightweight are required. However, they suffer from delamination and low damping, severely affecting laminate reliability during the service life of components. CFRP laminates modified by rubbery nanofibers interleaving is a recently introduced way to increase material damping and to improve delamination resistance. In this work, nitrile butadiene rubber/poly(ε-caprolactone) (NBR/PCL) blend rubbery nanofibrous mats with 60 wt% NBR were produced in three different mat grammages (5, 10 and 20 g/m 2) via single-needle electrospinning and integrated into epoxy CFRP laminates. The investigation demonstrated that both mat grammage and positioning affect CFRP tanδ behaviour, evaluated by dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) tests, as well as the number of nano-modified interleaves. Double cantilever beam (DCB) tests were carried out to assess the mat grammage effect on the interlaminar fracture toughness. Results show an outstanding improvement of G I, R for all the tested reinforced laminates regardless of the mat grammage (from +140% to +238%), while the effect on G I, C is more dependent on it (up to +140%). The obtained results disclose the great capability of NBR/PCL rubbery nanofibrous mats at improving CFRP damping and interlaminar fracture toughness. Moreover, CFRP damping can be tailored by choosing the number and positioning of the nano-modified interleaves, besides choosing the mat grammage.

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                Role: Academic Editor
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                Journal
                Polymers (Basel)
                Polymers (Basel)
                polymers
                Polymers
                MDPI
                2073-4360
                09 June 2021
                June 2021
                : 13
                : 12
                : 1918
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Department of Industrial Chemistry “Toso Montanari”, University of Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 4, 40136 Bologna, Italy; emanuele.maccaferri3@ 123456unibo.it (E.M.); tiziana.benelli@ 123456unibo.it (T.B.); loris.giorgini@ 123456unibo.it (L.G.)
                [2 ]Interdepartmental Center for Industrial Research on Advanced Applications in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Technology, CIRI-MAM, University of Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy; tommasomaria.brugo@ 123456unibo.it
                [3 ]Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy
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                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2092-808X
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3528-6729
                https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9420-2524
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3466-2913
                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2248-3552
                Article
                polymers-13-01918
                10.3390/polym13121918
                8229874
                65ab5353-f6a8-4a36-ac9d-039dbe4b581b
                © 2021 by the authors.

                Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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                : 18 May 2021
                : 05 June 2021
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                damping,delamination,interlaminar fracture toughness,matrix toughening,rubber,nanofiber,epoxy carbon fiber composite,dynamic mechanical analysis (dma),mechanical properties,tensile testing

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