Short alkyl chain length ionic liquid as organic modifier in polypropylene/clay nanocomposite: a thermal comparative study

Autor: Priscila Vedovello, Ana Catarina de Oliveira Gomes, Lucas Mendonça da Rocha Oliveira, Sandra Andrea Cruz, Caio Marcio Paranhos
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: SN Applied Sciences, Vol 3, Iss 5, Pp 1-12 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2523-3963
2523-3971
DOI: 10.1007/s42452-021-04573-w
Popis: Abstract The most common polymeric nanocomposites are constituted of organically-modified clays. Generally, these organic modifiers are based on quaternary ammonium salts. These systems have as disadvantage the low thermal resistance of its modifiers under processing. Ionic liquids (IL) with different molecular structures can be used as organic modifier in lamellar clays-based polymeric nanocomposites, being promising not only to increase interactions between the nanoclay and the matrix, but also to increase the thermal resistance. In this study, polypropylene-based/montmorillonite nanocomposites were compared from two different organic modifiers. The use of short alkyl chain length imidazolium-based IL as montmorillonite modifier was investigated in terms of the thermal stability when compared to the usual quaternary ammonium salt surfactant. Integral procedure decomposition temperature was employed to determine the effect of these two different organoclay modifiers in PP-nanocomposites. The activation energy for these samples was calculated using Flynn–Wall–Ozawa (FWO) method. It was also used the multiple linear regression analysis to calculate the activation energy in order to evaluate the accuracy of this method when applied to nanocomposites. Article Highlights Short length alkyl group in ionic liquid was able to improve the thermal stability of PP-based nanocomposite. IPDT methodology is more realistic to evaluate the thermal stability of ionic liquid-based nanocomposite. MLR methodology was efficient to assess the entropic contribution associated to polymer-clay interactions, inter-lamellae spaces and interface morphology.
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