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).
Abstract
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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