Journal
GIANT
Volume 4, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.giant.2020.100035
Keywords
Vitrimer; Nanocomposite; POSS; Epoxy networks
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51673016]
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Although considerable progress has been made in developing vitrimers, on-going challenges for vitrimers for high-performance applications include the improvement in mechanical properties and identification of more efficient exchange reactions. By incorporation of glycidyl polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) as a nanoscale filler in epoxy, we produced epoxy-POSS nanocomposite vitrimers that show high strength, toughness, thermal stability, and efficient relaxation. With 10 wt% POSS, the ultimate tensile strength and strain at break of the epoxy-POSS nanocomposite vitrimers increased by similar to 64% and similar to 76%, respectively, while at 160 degrees C the stress relaxation time increased by similar to 260% in comparison to that of pure epoxy vitrimer. The epoxy-POSS nanocomposite vitrimers show high malleability due to the efficient transesterification reaction and re-processability with little degradation of their initial mechanical properties, suggesting opportunities for sustainable plastics.
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