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Quantitative description of interfacial strength in polypropylene/inorganic particle composites
Author(s) -
Liang JiZhao
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
polymer composites
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.577
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1548-0569
pISSN - 0272-8397
DOI - 10.1002/pc.21104
Subject(s) - materials science , composite material , polypropylene , ultimate tensile strength , adhesion , particulates , nanometre , particle (ecology) , calcium carbonate , polymer , izod impact strength test , ecology , oceanography , biology , geology
The parameters characterizing the interfacial adhesion strength, such as interaction parameter ( B ) and interfacial adhesion angle (θ), of inorganic particulate‐filled polymer composites were analyzed in this paper. On the basis of the previous studies and the research work reported in literature, several expressions for predicting these parameters and the determination methods of these parameters were proposed, and the relationship between the interaction parameter and interfacial adhesion angle was discussed. Then the parameters B and θ were estimated from the experimental measured tensile strength of the several inorganic particulate‐filled polypropylene (PP) composites including nanometer calcium carbonate, glass bead and diatomite particles. The results showed that the value of θ was about from 44 to 75 degrees while the value of B was varying from 1.12 to 2.42 of these filled systems under the experimental conditions. Moreover, the value of B decreased roughly linearly with increasing θ for these particulate‐filled PP composites.POLYM. COMPOS., 2011. © 2011 Society of Plastics Engineers