Journal
COMPOSITES PART A-APPLIED SCIENCE AND MANUFACTURING
Volume 40, Issue 6-7, Pages 878-882Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2009.04.010
Keywords
Nano-structures; Thermal properties
Funding
- National Program on Key Basic Research Pre-Projects [2006CB708603]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [50373022]
- Taishan Scholar Program of Shandong Province, China
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Poly (ethylene terephthalate) (PET)/SiO2 nanocomposites were synthesized via the Sol-Gel method that involves two steps: terephthalic acid was first reacted with excess ethylene glycol to form his (hydroxyethyl) terephthalate (BHET); then the tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) were transferred to the BHET followed by the Sol-Gel reactions at high temperature to form silica nanonetworks concurrent with polycondensation of BHET to produce the PET matrix. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) showed that silica particle size was at nanoscale, and the nanoparticles were uniformly dispersed in the polymer matrix. Thermo-gravimetric analysis (TGA) results indicated that the activation energy of thermal degradation of the composites was largely improved. The flame retardancy of the composites was found to be improved according to cone calorimeter (CONE). The nonisothermal crystallization ability of the composites was found to be depressed according to differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). Crown Copyright (C) 2009 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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