The interfacial enhancement of LLDPE/whisker composites via interfacial crystallization |
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Authors: | Nanying Ning Hua Deng Feng Luo Qin Zhang Ke Wang Feng Chen Qiang Fu |
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Institution: | College of Polymer Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, People's Republic of China |
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Abstract: | Interfacial interaction plays a key role in the preparation of high performance polymer composites. In this work, in order to explore the possibility to enhance the interfacial interaction via interfacial crystallization of polymer matrix onto the filler surface, interfacial crystallization structure and mechanical properties of linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE)/whisker composites were investigated. The composites were firstly prepared by melt compounding, followed by processing in both traditional and dynamic injection molding. DSC, WAXD, SEM were used to characterize the interfacial crystallization structure. And the mechanical properties were measured by tensile testing. An imperfect shish‐calabash structure, with whisker served as shish, and irregular LLDPE spherulite as imperfect calabash, was formed during common injection molding processing. Such a structure was considered as the main reason for the strong interfacial adhesion and the obviously improved tensile strength and modulus. Furthermore, introducing shear could cause the formation of relatively perfect shish‐calabash structure, leading to the stronger interfacial adhesion. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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Keywords: | interfacial adhesion interfacial crystallization LLDPE shish‐calabash structure whisker |
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