Journal
CHEMISTRYSELECT
Volume 7, Issue 34, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/slct.202201922
Keywords
Polypropylene; layered compounds; nanostructures; flame retardancy; crystallization
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- Department of Science and Technology (Government of India) [SB/S3/CE/070/2014]
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India
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Decorated multiwalled carbon nanotubes with layered double hydroxides as fillers can significantly improve the thermal stability and flame retardancy of isotactic polypropylene. The formation of a jammed network and effective char formation can restrict the transport of volatile compounds.
The multiwalled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) decorated with exfoliated and fragmented layered double hydroxides (CNT-LDH hybrids) were used as multifunctional nanofillers for isotactic polypropylene (iPP). Under similar experimental conditions, iPP/CNTs and iPP/LDH nanocomposites were also prepared. Compared to neat iPP, both CNT-LDH hybrids and LDH showed effective nucleation ability for iPP. Hybrid CNT-LDH fillers are found to improve the thermal stability and flame retardancy of iPP significantly even with minimum loadings (1 wt% CNTs + 1 wt% LDH) compared to the individual fillers. The highest 50 % weight loss temperature was observed for iPP/CNT-LDH nanocomposites. The nanocomposite prepared with 2 wt% of CNT-LDH hybrid fillers showed a reduction of heat release rate (HRR) of 59 %, which is much higher than the nanocomposites prepared with 2 wt% of CNTs (30.5 %) and 2 wt% of LDH (19 %). The limiting oxygen index value of iPP is 16.5 % and it increases to 23 % for iPP/CNT-LDH nanocomposites. We have shown that the synergetic effect between CNTs and LDH can surpass individual nanofillers as effective flame retardants due to the capability of formation of a jammed network in the polymer matrix and effective char formation to restrict the transport of volatile compounds during the burning of the polymer.
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