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ABS/clay nanocomposites obtained by a solution technique: Influence of clay organic modifiers |
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| Authors: | M Modesti S Besco V Causin JW Gilman PC Trulove M Zammarano |
| Institution: | a Department of Chemical Process Engineering, University of Padova, Via Marzolo 9, 35131 Padova, Italy b Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Via Marzolo 1, 35131 Padova, Italy c Building and Fire Research Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA d Department of Chemistry, American University, Washington, DC 20016-8014, USA e Chemistry Department, US Naval Academy 572M Holloway Road, Annapolis, MD 21402-5026, USA f Directorate of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Arlington, VA 22203-1768, USA |
| Abstract: | Acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) polymer/clay nanocomposites were produced using an intercalation-adsorption technique from polymer in solution: polymer/clay suspensions were subjected to ultrasonic processing to increase the effectiveness of mixing. Several kinds of organically modified layered silicates (OMLS) were used to understand the influence of the surfactant nature on the intercalation-exfoliation mechanism. We show that only imidazolium-treated montmorillonite (DMHDIM-MMT) is stable at the processing temperature of 200 °C, used for hot-pressing, whereas alkyl-ammonium modified clays show significant degradation.The morphology of ABS based polymer nanocomposites prepared in this work was characterized by means of wide angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Dynamic-mechanical analysis (DMA) was used to determine the storage modulus and damping coefficient as a function of temperature, and to investigate the correlations between mechanical properties and morphology of the nanocomposites. The thermal stability was assessed by means of thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). DMA and TGA show that the nanocomposites based on imidazolium-modified clay out-perform the nanocomposites based on quaternary-ammonium-modified clays in terms of mechanical properties and thermal stability. |
| Keywords: | ABS Nanocomposites Solution Organic modifiers |
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