Dependence of the Dynamic Mechanical Properties and Structure of Polyurethane-Clay Nanocomposites on the Weight Fraction of Clay
Dependence of the Dynamic Mechanical Properties and Structure of Polyurethane-Clay Nanocomposites on the Weight Fraction of Clay
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DOI:
10.3390/jcs6060173
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发表时间:
2022-06-01
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Iroh, Jude O.
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作者:
Peng, Shirley;Iroh, Jude O.
The effect of clay and chemical cross-linking on the dynamic mechanical properties of polyurethane reinforced with different concentrations of organically modified montmorillonite clay is investigated in this study. The polyurethane matrix is constituted of polytetrahydrofuran soft segment and 4,4 '-methylenebis(phenyl isocyanate) hard segment. Glycerin was used as the chemical crosslinking agent, while Cloisite 30B clay was the reinforcing filler. The nanocomposites containing up to 1 wt.% clay showed a uniform dispersion of clay; however, the nanocomposites containing higher concentrations of clay showed the presence of heterogeneities. Dynamic mechanical spectroscopy, DMS revealed that the nanocomposites containing between 2 and 10 wt.% clay had two glass transition temperatures, T-g,T-1 and T-g,T-2. The higher-temperature glass transition temperature, T-g,T-2 increased with increasing clay concentration, while the low-temperature glass transition temperature, T-g,T-1 decreased with increasing clay concentration. The nanocomposites containing low clay concentrations up to 1 wt.% showed only one glass transition temperature with a narrow glass transition region. The crosslink density for the nanocomposites increased with increasing wt.% clay.