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Title: Layered silicate / polypropylene nanocomposites
Authors: Işık, Kıvanç
Advisors: Tanoğlu, Metin
Publisher: Izmir Institute of Technology
Abstract: Layered silicate nanocomposites are new generation materials that have unique properties obtained by low particulate loadings. In this study, layered silicate/polypropylene nanocomposites were prepared by melt intercalation method.Homopolymer PP alone and maleic anhydride-grafted polypropylene (PPgMA) as a compatibilizer were used as the matrix. Clay (Na+ montmorillonite, MMT) particles were used with and without structural modification to obtain silicate nano-layers within the PP matrix. Structural modification of MMT using hexadecyltrimethyl ammonium chloride (HTAC) was applied to obtain organophilic silicates (OMMT). XRD results demonstrated that the dispersion of the modified silicate layers and compatibilized with PPgMA (OMMT/PPgMA) is better than those for incompatibilized compositions. The addition of silicate layers increased the crystallization temperature of PP as well as the thermal stability, but the melting temperature of the nanocomposites was decreased by the addition of silicate as compared with neat PP. The mechanical characterizations exhibited an increase of 62% on tensile modulus and 15% on tensile stress at break as compared to neat PP due to the improved dispersion of silicate layers within PP in 3 wt.% OMMT/PPgMA/PP nanocomposites. The effect of clay modification and PPgMA compatibilization on the light transmission of PP nanocomposites was characterized by optical transmission analysis. For the OMMT/PPgMA/PP nanocomposites, light transmission was improved as the dispersion was enhanced. The flammability results demonstrated that unmodified MMT and modified OMMT decreased the burning rate of PP nanocomposites. The organic modification of clay and compatibilization decreased the rate of flammability. A decrease of 26% on the burning rate of PP was recorded in 10%wt. OMMT/PPgMA/PP nanocomposites.
Description: Thesis (Master)--Izmir Institute of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Izmir, 2006
Includes bibliographical references (leaves: 76-80)
Text in English; Abstract: Turkish and English
xi, 80 leaves
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11147/3219
Appears in Collections:Master Degree / Yüksek Lisans Tezleri

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