Structural Analysis of Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane Coated SiC Nanoparticles and Their Applications in Thermoset Polymers

Table 1

Peak search values for SiC and OI POSS coated SiC for XRD analysis.

Sample ID	2θ at 100% intensity	(Ǻ)	FWHM (°)	FWHM at 35.6°
SiC	35.612	2.5189	0.673	0.673
OI POSS	7.948	11.1152	0.311	—
SiC : OI (1 : 1)	7.912	11.1656	0.313	0.600
SiC : OI (1 : 2)	7.935	11.1328	0.306	0.620
Phy. mix. of SiC/OI (1 : 1)	7.910	11.1672	0.305	0.670