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The role of the filler surface chemistry on the dielectric and thermal properties of polypropylene aluminium nitride nanocomposites

The role of the filler surface chemistry on the dielectric and thermal properties of polypropylene aluminium nitride nanocomposites
The role of the filler surface chemistry on the dielectric and thermal properties of polypropylene aluminium nitride nanocomposites
In nanocomposites, different surface states of nanoparticles can potentially provide different interactions with the base polymer and in turn change the bulk properties. Aluminium nitride (AlN) nanoparticles were surface functionalised with three different silane coupling agents (SCAs) with varying organofunctional and hydrolysable groups. The effects of the filler surface chemistry on the resulting AlN/polypropylene (PP) nanocomposites were examined and compared with an unfilled reference system. It is observed that different organofunctional groups can provide different nucleating effects and the dispersion states of nanoparticles while the hydrolysable group is not the dominant factor. The dielectric spectroscopy results show the hydrolysable group of SCA will also result in a difference of the interphase since the trimethoxy silane treated systems show much higher imaginary permittivity than the triethoxy silane treated systems when the frequency is below 1 Hz. The grafted organofunctional layer on the particle surface can provide a significant improvement of the thermal conductivity of the composite materials, e.g. 15 % improvement in thermal conductivity was observed when adding 10 wt% methacrylate silanes treated nano-AlN into PP, while the untreated counterpart only has 5 % improvement.
1070-9878
1009-1017
Wang, Xinyu
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Andritsch, Thomas
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Chen, George
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Wang, Xinyu
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Andritsch, Thomas
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Chen, George
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Virtanen, Suvi
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Wang, Xinyu, Andritsch, Thomas, Chen, George and Virtanen, Suvi (2019) The role of the filler surface chemistry on the dielectric and thermal properties of polypropylene aluminium nitride nanocomposites. IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics & Electrical Insulation, 26 (3), 1009-1017. (doi:10.1109/TDEI.2019.007773).

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In nanocomposites, different surface states of nanoparticles can potentially provide different interactions with the base polymer and in turn change the bulk properties. Aluminium nitride (AlN) nanoparticles were surface functionalised with three different silane coupling agents (SCAs) with varying organofunctional and hydrolysable groups. The effects of the filler surface chemistry on the resulting AlN/polypropylene (PP) nanocomposites were examined and compared with an unfilled reference system. It is observed that different organofunctional groups can provide different nucleating effects and the dispersion states of nanoparticles while the hydrolysable group is not the dominant factor. The dielectric spectroscopy results show the hydrolysable group of SCA will also result in a difference of the interphase since the trimethoxy silane treated systems show much higher imaginary permittivity than the triethoxy silane treated systems when the frequency is below 1 Hz. The grafted organofunctional layer on the particle surface can provide a significant improvement of the thermal conductivity of the composite materials, e.g. 15 % improvement in thermal conductivity was observed when adding 10 wt% methacrylate silanes treated nano-AlN into PP, while the untreated counterpart only has 5 % improvement.

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Accepted/In Press date: 26 January 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 29 May 2019
Published date: June 2019

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Local EPrints ID: 428008
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/428008
ISSN: 1070-9878
PURE UUID: 7f485022-2d0f-4e4b-bf73-78c2d093ef9a
ORCID for Xinyu Wang: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9434-2906
ORCID for Thomas Andritsch: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3462-022X
ORCID for Suvi Virtanen: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0502-3183

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Author: Thomas Andritsch ORCID iD
Author: George Chen
Author: Suvi Virtanen ORCID iD

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