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Authors Krause, B. ; Carval, J. ; Pötschke, P.
Title Influence of mixing conditions on carbon nanotube shortening and curling in polycarbonate composites
Date 31.12.2017
Number 49765
Abstract Polycarbonate composites containing multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs, 0.2-2.0 wt%) were melt mixed in small scale at different conditions of screw speed and mixing time to vary the specific mechanical energy (SME) input between 0.4 and 4.0 kWh/kg. Next to the electrical properties of compression molded plates and the MWCNT macrodispersion also the nanotube length and shape were analyzed. For this, the matrix of the composites with 0.75 wt% MWCNT loading was dissolved and the remaining nanotubes were investigated using TEM. It was found that with increasing SME input the number of remaining CNT agglomerates decreases. The MWCNT length decreased from initially about 1.4 micrometers towards 350 nanometers at a SME of 4 kWh/kg and the mean curling values were also reduced. The electrical percolation threshold increases with SME from about 0.4 wt% to 0.6 wt%.
Publisher AIP Conference Proceedings
Wikidata
Citation AIP Conference Proceedings 1914 (2017) ID030007
DOI http://doi.org/10.1063/1.5016694
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