laminated composite disclosed herein the lamination of the nano platelet doped veils onto the prepregs takes place during the lay up process one advantage of this technique is that it does not require any chemical or physical modifications of the existing prepregs modifying commercial prepregs is generally difficult and costly at least in part because these materials are delicately balanced in their cure rate viscosity temperature behavior and handling characteristics it is to be understood that the method of making the laminated composite disclosed herein may be used with any prepreg the technique is believed to be practical for implementation since it requires minimal if any alteration of the conventional prepregs and or of the lay up processes another advantage of the method disclosed herein is that it uses a significantly smaller amount of the graphite nano platelets compared with the traditional methods of incorporating nanofibers into the entire prepreg resin matrix for example a previous study found in literature see fig1 in quaresimin et al u201c understanding the effect of nano modifier addition upon the properties of fibre reinforced laminates u201d composites science and technology volume 68 issues 3 4 march 2008 pages 718 726 reported a 20 improvement in impact energy by adding 7 5 wt of carbon nanofibers cnf to the prepreg itself the technique of the present disclosure generates more than 20 improvement with less than 3 wt of exfoliated graphite nano platelets and without having to incorporate the exfoliated graphite nano platelets into the prepreg composition as shown in table 1 in the examples hereinbelow still another advantage of the method disclosed herein is that any increases in thickness and weight of the parts molded from the laminated composite resulting from the process disclosed herein are minimal and likely negligible for example the.