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Polypropylene/carbon nanotube magnetic composites obtained using carbon nanotubes from sawdust
Author(s) -
Nisar Muhammad,
Sebag Bernd Maria da Graça,
Pinto da Silva Filho Luiz Carlos,
Geshev Julian,
Barrera Galland Griselda
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
polymers for advanced technologies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.61
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1099-1581
pISSN - 1042-7147
DOI - 10.1002/pat.4493
Subject(s) - materials science , nanocomposite , carbon nanotube , composite material , polypropylene , thermogravimetric analysis , differential scanning calorimetry , polymer , crystallization , sawdust , chemical engineering , ecology , physics , biology , engineering , thermodynamics
Magnetic polypropylene (PP) nanocomposites with different loadings (from 0.5 to 20 wt %) of carbon nanotubes with iron (CNT‐Fe) were fabricated using the melt‐mixing method. The carbon nanotubes were synthesized by pyrolysis of sawdust from the furniture industry. The morphological characterization shows homogenous dispersion of the filler in the polymer matrix. The addition of only 0.5 wt % CNT‐Fe already results in ferromagnetic behavior in the diamagnetic polymer matrix. The thermal properties were investigated using thermogravimetric analysis and differential scanning calorimetry. The results show an increase in the maximum degradation, crystallization, and melting temperatures of the nanocomposites compared with neat PP. The nanocomposites showed improvement in terms of mechanical and oxygen permeability properties. A very significant result of the work is the high remnant magnetization and coercivity values of the nanocomposites at room temperature whereas most of the works on similar systems show magnetic properties only at very low temperatures.