Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1484385 Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 2005 6 Pages PDF
Abstract

Polymer-derived silicon oxycarbide is ostensibly amorphous, yet we show that it exhibits high temperature anelasticity that has so far been seen only in crystalline structures. The time dependency, and the magnitude of strain recovery upon unloading, are non-linear. Indeed the pattern is reminiscent of polymers where viscoelasticity arises from the time dependent but recoverable movement of one-dimensional carbon chains that are intertwined and cross-linked to some degree. In analogy we propose that viscoelasticity in this polymer-derived ceramic arises from an intertwined network of two-dimensional graphene sheets.

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