期刊
POLYMER
卷 51, 期 12, 页码 2690-2699出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2010.04.041
关键词
Nanocomposites; Halloysite; Mechanical reinforcement
资金
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [AL 474/13-1]
- Imerys Tableware Ltd.
In this work, the potential of silicate nanotubes of the naturally occurring mineral halloysite as filler for polyamide 6 (PA 6) nanocomposites is evaluated. Several PA 6/halloysite composites with 0 wt% to 30 wt % filler loading using two different grades of PA 6 were prepared. In order to elucidate the influence of molecular weight on the properties of the nanocomposites, mechanical resp. rheological experiments (i) below the glass transition temperature T-g of PA 6, (ii) between T-g and the melting temperature T-m of PA 6 and (iii) above T-m were performed. Our investigations reveal that the addition of halloysite nanotubes favours the formation of the gamma-modification for the low molar mass PA 6. Furthermore, the storage modulus, the tensile modulus and the yield stress of the composites increase with concentration of halloysite, an effect which is strongly pronounced at very low filler fractions for the low molar mass PA 6 composites. The increase of the storage modulus which was measured in dynamic-mechanical experiments is mostly dominant in the temperature interval from 55 degrees C to 100 degrees C, i.e. above the glass transition temperature of PA 6. Rheological investigations showed that the shear viscosity is only moderately increased by the addition of a low fraction of halloysite to PA 6, and nanocomposites with 30 wt% halloysite can be still processed. In summary, halloysite nanotubes are promising and inexpensive candidates for increasing the stiffness of PA 6 while maintaining very good flow properties. (c) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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