Improvement of barrier properties of glycol modified poly(ethylene terephthalate) based nanocomposites containing graphene derivatives forms

The development and further studies on several types of graphene nanoplatelets (GNP) have enabled manufacture of electrically conductive and reinforced polymer nanocomposites with enhanced gas barrier performance at extremely low loading. Herein, we present the synthesis process, morphology and gas barrier properties of the glycol modified poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PETG) based nanocomposites. For the first time, we compared how different types of GNPs, at the same nanofiller's content of 0.5 wt %, affect the properties of polymer matrix obtained by in situ polymerization.