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CHINESE JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE
Volume 34, Issue 7, Pages 889-900Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s10118-016-1806-4
Keywords
Linear low-density polyethylene; MWCNTs; Supercritical carbon dioxide; Foam; Open-cell morphologies
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21306090, 51403110]
- Zhejiang Provincial Education Department [Y201430774, Y201327472]
- K.C. Wong Magna Fund in Ningbo University
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The open-cell structure foams of linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) and linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE)/multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) composites are prepared by using supercritical carbon dioxide (sc-CO2) as a foaming agent. The effects of processing parameters (foaming temperature, saturation pressure, and depressurization rate) and the addition of MWCNTs on the evolution of cell opening are studied systematically. For LLDPE foaming, the foaming temperature and saturation pressure are two key factors for preparing open-cell foams. An increase in temperature and pressure promotes both the cell wall thinning and cell rupture, because a high temperature results in a decrease in the viscosity of the polymer, and a high pressure leads to a larger amount of cell nucleation. Moreover, for the given temperature and pressure, the high pressurization rate results in a high pressure gradient, favoring cell rupture. For LLDPE/MWCNTs foaming, the addition of MWCNTs not only promotes the cell heterogeneous nucleation, but also prevents the cell collapse during cell opening, which is critical to achieve the open-cell structures with small cell size and high cell density.
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