Interfacial distribution and compatibilization of imidazolium functionalized CNTs in poly(lactic
Bincheng Huang1, Zhenfeng Wang1, Jiaying Tu1
1Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anhui Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials and Devices, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China.
Abstract:
Imidazolium-functionalized polyurethane (IPU) functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) was used to control interfacial distribution and compatibilization of CNTs, and enhance electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding and mechanical properties of poly(lactic acid)/polycaprolactone (PLA/PCL) based composites. IPU facilitated the uniformly dispersion of CNTs and induced the selectively location of CNTs at the interface and PCL phase, which is beneficial to build more effective three-dimensional network structure at the co-continuous interphase. The EMI shielding properties for the PLA/PCL/8CNT/0.8IPU composites have been evidently increased to 35.6 dB. Meanwhile, the elongation at break and the notched impact strength of the PLA/PCL/8CNT/0.8IPU composite reached 307.8 % and 51.3 kJ/m2, respectively, which are increased by 27 and 53 % of PLA/PCL/8CNT because of the compatibilization effect of IPU and the distribution of CNTs. This work presented a promising prospect of polymer-based composites with satisfactory EMI shielding and mechanical properties.
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