{"title":"Review on Nanocellulose Polymer Nanocomposites","authors":"S. Mondal","doi":"10.1080/03602559.2017.1381253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03602559.2017.1381253","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, nanocellulosic materials have been received significant research interest as potential nanofiller for the reinforcements in the polymer matrices due to its renewable in nature, readily av...","PeriodicalId":20629,"journal":{"name":"Polymer-Plastics Technology and Engineering","volume":"5 1","pages":"1377-1391"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84096806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. G. Martínez‐Colunga, S. Sánchez-Valdes, L. Ramos-deValle, O. Pérez‐Camacho, E. Ramírez‐Vargas, R. Benavides-Cantu, C. Ávila‐Orta, V. J. Cruz‐Delgado, J. M. Mata-Padilla, T. Lozano‐Ramírez, A. Espinoza-Martinez
{"title":"Aniline-Modified Polypropylene as a Compatibilizer in Polypropylene Carbon Nanotube Composites","authors":"J. G. Martínez‐Colunga, S. Sánchez-Valdes, L. Ramos-deValle, O. Pérez‐Camacho, E. Ramírez‐Vargas, R. Benavides-Cantu, C. Ávila‐Orta, V. J. Cruz‐Delgado, J. M. Mata-Padilla, T. Lozano‐Ramírez, A. Espinoza-Martinez","doi":"10.1080/03602559.2017.1381251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03602559.2017.1381251","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTMaleic anhydride-grafted polypropylene (PP-g-MA) was reacted with aniline (NH2C6H5) to produce PP-g-NHC6H5 and used as a compatibilizer in polypropylene/carbon nanotube composites. Infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and nuclear magnetic resonance confirmed the reaction between PP-g-MA and aniline. PP-g-NHC6H5 resulted a better compatibilizer than PP-g-MA, producing good dispersion and homogeneous distribution of the carbon nanotubes with less agglomerates, as observed by SEM analysis. Improved dispersion and distribution is assumed to be due to the π–π interactions between the –C6H5 ring in the prepared compatibilizer and the hexagonal carbon structure in the nanotubes. In addition, a higher degree of crystallinity (12%) was promoted, since it was favored by π–π interactions. This achieved higher crystallinity promoted an increase in tensile modulus, with only slight changes in tensile strength but with an adverse effect on elongation at break.","PeriodicalId":20629,"journal":{"name":"Polymer-Plastics Technology and Engineering","volume":"35 1","pages":"1360-1366"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76343188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ionic Conductivity and Power Conversion Efficiency Study of KI Incorporated Glucosyl Carboxonium Ion-based Biopolymer Crust Electrolyte","authors":"E. Bementa, G. Okram, M. Rajan","doi":"10.1080/03602559.2017.1381245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03602559.2017.1381245","url":null,"abstract":"The impedance of well-characterized KI-incorporated glucosyl carboxonium ion-based biopolymer crust electrolytes up to a maximum 2.7 wt% was measured using electrical impedance spectroscopy. Enhanced ionic conductivity of 2.3657 × 10−2 S cm−1 on the addition of 2.7 wt% of KI was observed in contrast to earlier reported value for pure GCI of 4.5278 × 10−4 S cm−1. This is attributed due to the increased concentration of KI in the system and is corroborated with increased ion density (n), mobility (µ), and diffusion coefficients (D). Dielectric and modulus study shows the capacitive nature of electrolyte. Fabricated dye-sensitized solar cell using pure glucosyl carboxonium ion crust and KI-incorporated glucosyl carboxonium ion crust shows the efficiency of 1.19% for pure and shows the efficiency of 2.14% for 2.6 wt% of KI in glucosyl carboxonium ion at 1 sun condition.","PeriodicalId":20629,"journal":{"name":"Polymer-Plastics Technology and Engineering","volume":"64 3 1","pages":"1303-1312"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88462194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Heidari, S. Talebi, M. Rezaei, Hasan Keshavarz-Mirzamohamadi, Elchin Jafariyeh-Yazdi
{"title":"In Situ Synthesis of Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polyethylene/Graphene Oxide Nanocomposite Using the Immobilized Single-site Catalyst","authors":"A. Heidari, S. Talebi, M. Rezaei, Hasan Keshavarz-Mirzamohamadi, Elchin Jafariyeh-Yazdi","doi":"10.1080/03602559.2017.1381246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03602559.2017.1381246","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTWe address the immobilization of single-site catalyst on the graphite oxide (GO) surface using methylaluminoxane. Ethylene polymerization was performed using the immobilized catalyst and the nanocomposite of ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE)/GO with less entanglement density was obtained. It was observed that the drawability, mechanical and thermal properties of the produced polymer significantly are affected by the anchoring of polymer chains to the GO nanosheets. The orientation and location of crystalline lamellae and nanosheets were verified by microscopic techniques. Besides, X-ray analysis demonstrated the dispersion of GO within the UHMWPE phase and crystallinity of UHMWPE/GO nanocomposites enhanced during drawing process.","PeriodicalId":20629,"journal":{"name":"Polymer-Plastics Technology and Engineering","volume":"67 1","pages":"1313-1324"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87067011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Varnagiris, J. Donėlienė, S. Tučkutė, J. Cesniene, M. Lelis, D. Milčius
{"title":"Expanded Polystyrene Foam Formed from Polystyrene Beads Coated with a Nanocrystalline SiO2 Film and the Analysis of Its Moisture Adsorption and Resistance to Mechanical Stress","authors":"S. Varnagiris, J. Donėlienė, S. Tučkutė, J. Cesniene, M. Lelis, D. Milčius","doi":"10.1080/03602559.2017.1381244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03602559.2017.1381244","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTConventional expanded polystyrene can absorb moisture, which significantly degrades its properties. In the present study, it was demonstrated that SiO2 can be deposited on polystyrene beads before pre-expansion and molding steps. Under the applied test conditions, expanded polystyrene with nanocrystalline SiO2 additives had approximately 10% lower moisture adsorption and an 8.4% better resistance to deformation. Expanded polystyrene analysis suggested that the observed improvements were caused by the hydrophobic nature of nanocrystalline SiO2 and, even more importantly, because SiO2 acted as an amalgamation catalyst and significantly increased adhesion between the expanded polystyrene beads during the expanded polystyrene molding process.","PeriodicalId":20629,"journal":{"name":"Polymer-Plastics Technology and Engineering","volume":"22 1","pages":"1296-1302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77836250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preparation and Characterization of Microcapsules Containing Soybean Oil and Their Application in Self-Healing Anticorrosive Coatings","authors":"P. S. Shisode, C. Patil, P. Mahulikar","doi":"10.1080/03602559.2017.1381248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03602559.2017.1381248","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTSynthetic self-healing materials are a new prototype in polymeric coatings. In the present investigation, soybean oil along with drier was encapsulated in urea–formaldehyde (UF) microcapsul...","PeriodicalId":20629,"journal":{"name":"Polymer-Plastics Technology and Engineering","volume":"12 1","pages":"1334-1343"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82942511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Facile Preparation of Cellulose/Polylactide Composite Materials with Tunable Mechanical Properties","authors":"T. Qiang, Jinwu Wang, M. Wolcott","doi":"10.1080/03602559.2017.1381243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03602559.2017.1381243","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTA solvent-free route was developed to fabricate 100% biobased, renewable, and degradable polylactide (PLA) composites reinforced with ball-milled celluloses. The results show that the original pulp cellulose fibers were modified to partial amorphization through 30-min ball milling. Filling the ball milled celluloses into PLA increased the tensile modulus for the resultant cellulose/PLA composite materials, while decreased their tensile strength and impact resistance. This method can be used to access the cost-efficient PLA-based composite materials with tunable mechanical properties. The variation analysis shows that filling content contributed more to the variations of their mechanical properties than that particle size did.","PeriodicalId":20629,"journal":{"name":"Polymer-Plastics Technology and Engineering","volume":"49 1","pages":"1288-1295"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85804998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhaoguang Wang, Zhengyi Liu, Li Chen, Yiping Zhao, Xia Feng
{"title":"Influence of Solvent-Evaporation Effect on the Structure and Properties of PVDF-g-PNIPAAm Membranes","authors":"Zhaoguang Wang, Zhengyi Liu, Li Chen, Yiping Zhao, Xia Feng","doi":"10.1080/03602559.2017.1381250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03602559.2017.1381250","url":null,"abstract":"Temperature-sensitive poly(vinylidene fluoride)-graft-poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)(PVDF-g-PNIPAAm) copolymer was synthesized and its flat membranes were prepared through phase inversion method with ...","PeriodicalId":20629,"journal":{"name":"Polymer-Plastics Technology and Engineering","volume":"75 1","pages":"1352-1359"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83367635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Poly(Vinylpyrrolidone)-Embedded Bismuth Ferrite—Poly(Vinylidene Fluoride-co-Hexafluoropropylene) Composites with Enhanced Dielectric Properties","authors":"S. Moharana, R. N. Mahaling","doi":"10.1080/03602559.2017.1381249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03602559.2017.1381249","url":null,"abstract":"The dielectric properties of poly(vinylpyrrolidone) (PVP)-modified bismuth ferrite (BFO) particles in the poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene) (P(VDF-HFP) matrix were prepared through solution casting techniques. The composites showed enhanced dielectric constant (90) and reduced dielectric loss (<0.5) at 40 wt% of PVP-modified BFO particles. The dielectric constant of the resultant composites with PVP-modified BFO was much higher as compared to that of unmodified BFO-P(VDF-HFP) composites. The maximum remnant polarization reached (2Pr ∼ 1.12 µC cm−2) in the PVP-modified BFO-P(VDF-HFP) composites. The demonstrated approach might provide a route for using PVP-modified BFO particles to enhance the dielectric and ferroelectric performance of the composites.","PeriodicalId":20629,"journal":{"name":"Polymer-Plastics Technology and Engineering","volume":"19 1","pages":"1344-1351"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75063651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Synthesis of Bio-Based Polyamide/Acid-Functionalized Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Nanocomposites Using Vanillin","authors":"Z. Mirzakhanian, M. Hasani, K. Faghihi","doi":"10.1080/03602559.2017.1381252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03602559.2017.1381252","url":null,"abstract":"Synthesis of bio-based polyamide/acid-functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotube nanocomposites (PA/FCNT NCs) is reported in this investigation. New aliphatic–aromatic bio-based polyamide (PA) was ...","PeriodicalId":20629,"journal":{"name":"Polymer-Plastics Technology and Engineering","volume":"122 1","pages":"1367-1376"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87977637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}