Improved mechanical properties of carbon nanotube/polymer composites through the use of carboxyl-epoxide functional group linkages
- Authors
- Park, S. H.; Bandaru, P. R.
- Issue Date
- Oct-2010
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCI LTD
- Citation
- POLYMER, v.51, no.22, pp.5071 - 5077
- Journal Title
- POLYMER
- Volume
- 51
- Number
- 22
- Start Page
- 5071
- End Page
- 5077
- URI
- http://scholarworks.bwise.kr/ssu/handle/2018.sw.ssu/5460
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.polymer.2010.08.063
- ISSN
- 0032-3861
- Abstract
- Single-walled and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were functionalized with carboxyl groups and dispersed in a polymer containing an epoxide group. We have then observed experimentally that mutual chemical reaction between the functional groups on the CNTs with the polymer epoxide group can enhance, two-fold, both the tensile strength and elastic modulus, E, of single walled CNT/polymer composites. A simple model was formulated to understand the variation of E with CNT volume fraction, considering agglomeration effects as well. An increase in the work of fracture, obtained from the experimental stress-strain curves, was seen at low nanotube filling fractions and is presumably due to crack bridging of the polymer matrix by CNTs. The influence of CNT length and geometry on mechanical properties, along with the influences of electrical and mechanical percolation thresholds was considered. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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