期刊
APPLIED CLAY SCIENCE
卷 116, 期 -, 页码 231-240出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.clay.2015.03.020
关键词
Polylactide; Nanocomposites; Interface; Mechanical properties; Morphology
资金
- Ecomeris Company
- Association Nationale de la Recherche et de la Technologie (ANRT)
- Region Nord Pas de Calais
- European FEDER
This work deals with the effect of both nature and content of two chemically different layered silicates (i.e. talc and kaolinite) on the morphology, structure and thermomechanical properties of polylactide/clay minerals composites. Composites with filler contents up to 30 wt.% were studied. Regarding the morphology it was found that kaolinite-PLA nanocomposites display a better filler dispersion with a majority of particle sizes at the nanometer scale. This better degree of dispersion has been ascribed to the electrochemical properties of kaolinite which exhibit a lower Zeta potential than talc. It was also found that talc has a pronounced nucleating effect on PLA crystallization, whatever the clay mineral content. By contrast this effect is very limited in kaolinite-PLA nanocomposites. Investigation of the mechanical behavior indicates that a reinforcing effect is observed for the two types of clay minerals for filler contents beyond 10 wt.%. This shows the interest of filling PLA with high clay minerals contents. This reinforcing effect is significantly higher for the talc based composites. These differences are ascribed to a better affinity between PLA macromolecules and talc surface, due to the presence of only silicate layers. In addition to the demonstration of the interest of using high clay minerals loadings, a main result of this work is that filler dispersion is not the only parameter that governs the gain in properties. It is shown that interfacial effects and more especially affinity between the polymer and the clay mineral also play a key role. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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