Carbon Nanotubes and Carbon Onions for Modification of Styrene-Acrylate Copolymer Based Nanocomposites

AIP Conference Proceedings: 7th International Conference on Times of Polymers (TOP) and Composites 2014
Remo Merijs-Meri, Jānis Zicāns, Tatjana Ivanova, Juris Bitenieks, P. Kuzhir, S. Maksimenko, V. Kuznetsov, S. Moseenkov

Styrene acrylate polymer (SAC) nanocomposites with various carbon nanofillers (multiwalled carbon nanotubes MWCNTs and onion like carbon OLC) are manufactured by means of latex based routes. Concentration of the carbon nanofillers is changed in a broad interval starting from 0.01 up to 10 wt. %. Elastic, dielectric and electromagnetic properties of SAC nanocomposites are investigated. Elastic modulus, electrical conductivity and electromagnetic radiation absorption of the investigated SAC nanocomposites increase along with rising nanofiller content. The effect of the addition of anisometric MWCNTs on the elastic properties of the composite is higher than in the case of the addition of OLC. Higher electrical conductivity of the OLC containing nanocomposites is explained with the fact that reasonable agglomeration of the nanofiller can promote the development of electrically conductive network. Efficiency of the absorption of electromagnetic radiation depends on the development of conductive network within the SAC matrix.

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DOI
10.1063/1.4876869
Hyperlink
http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/proceeding/aipcp/10.1063/1.4876869

Merijs-Meri, R., Zicāns, J., Ivanova, T., Bitenieks, J., Kuzhir, P., Maksimenko, S., kuznetsov, V., Moseenkov, S. Carbon Nanotubes and Carbon Onions for Modification of Styrene-Acrylate Copolymer Based Nanocomposites. In: AIP Conference Proceedings: 7th International Conference on Times of Polymers (TOP) and Composites, Italy, Ischia, 22-26 June, 2014. Melville: American Institute of Physics, 2014, pp.426-429. ISBN 978-0-7354-1233-0. ISSN 0094-243X. e-ISSN 1551-7616. Available from: doi:10.1063/1.4876869

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English (en)