China Plastics ›› 2022, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (2): 61-66.DOI: 10.19491/j.issn.1001-9278.2022.02.010

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Effect of carbon nanotube modification method on properties of polyamide 11

LI Bo1, GONG Jun1, JIN Xueyi1, MENG Xiaoyu2()   

  1. 1.China Oilfield Services Co,Ltd,Sanhe 065201,China
    2.China University of Petroleum (Beijing),Beijing 102249,China
  • Received:2021-09-23 Online:2022-02-26 Published:2022-02-23

Abstract:

In this paper, two surface modification methods, acid treatment and polyethyleneimine (PEI) grafting, were employed to modify multi?walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs). The resultant acid?etched MWCNTs (a?MWCNTs) and PEI?grafted MWCNTs (PEI?MWCNTs) were melt blended with polyamide 11 (PA11) to obtain the PA11/a?MWCNTs and PA11/PEI?MWCNTs composites. Their microscopic morphology, dispersibility, thermal stability, crystallinity and mechanical properties were investigated using scanning electron microscope, thermogravimetric analyzer, infrared spectrometer, and differential scanning calorimeter. The results indicated that the PA11/PEI?MWCNTs composites exhibited much better performance. When the content of PEI?MWCNTs was 3 wt%, the composites achieved tensile strength of 62.7 MPa and a Young’s modulus of 1 017 MPa, which are higher than pure PA11 by 37 % and 65 %, respectively. In addition, their degree of crystallinity increased by 14.6 %.

Key words: polyamide 11, polyethyleneimine, multi?walled carbon nanotube, composite material

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