Effect of crosslinking on the properties of composites based on LDPE and conducting organic filler |
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Authors: | Matej Mi?ušík Zuzana Nógellová Katarína Olejníková Ivan Chodák |
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Institution: | a Polymer Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Department of Composites Thermoplastics, Dúbravská cesta 9, 842 36 Bratislava, Slovakia b Department of Chemical Physics, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology, 812 37 Bratislava, Slovakia c Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic,162 06 Prague 6, Czech Republic |
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Abstract: | New types of composites were prepared using low-density polyethylene (LDPE) filled with modified organic filler, Canadian switch grass coated with polypyrrole (PPy). The grass surface was entirely covered when 10 wt.% of pyrrole was used for the modification, as confirmed by scanning electron microscopy and infrared spectroscopy. LDPE composites filled with modified grass were prepared by melt mixing and their properties were compared with the properties of the composites filled with unmodified grass. The influence of crosslinking, induced by 1 wt.% of peroxide, on mechanical, thermal and electrical properties of the composites was investigated. Crosslinking enhanced the tensile strength of the prepared composites in the entire range of the filler content. The Young’s modulus of the composites prepared by crosslinking is slightly lowered when compared with the uncrosslinked composites if the filler content is less than 60 wt.%, for higher filler content it is increased. The conductivity of the uncrosslinked composites containing 40 wt.% of grass modified by PPy was in the range 1 × 10−6 S cm−1, which is a value by 5 orders of magnitude higher than the conductivity of the crosslinked materials. The presence of PPy on grass surface leads to a reduction of crosslinking of the LDPE matrix. |
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Keywords: | Composites Polypyrrole Polyethylene Organic filler |
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