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Thermal stability of epoxy nanocomposites: surface treatment and morphology impact based on nano SiO2 and hBN fillers

Thermal stability of epoxy nanocomposites: surface treatment and morphology impact based on nano SiO2 and hBN fillers
Thermal stability of epoxy nanocomposites: surface treatment and morphology impact based on nano SiO2 and hBN fillers
Epoxy resin is one of the most commonly used thermosetting macromolecular synthetic materials. It displays excellent adhesiveness properties, good dielectric property, mechanical property and chemical stability. Consequently, epoxy resins have been widely used for many industrial purposes, such as electrical casting into power transformers, ignition coil systems and potting. In this paper, TGA and DSC measurements were carried out to evaluate the thermal stability of epoxy nanocomposites. Based on the results of dispersion and distribution of particles within epoxy nanocomposites, it concluded that both presences of nano SiO2 and hexagonal BN (hBN) particles have obvious impact on base materials in which the influences of latter particle are much more significant due to its shape, and thus both fillers leads to worse thermal stability than pure samples. However, particles could act as flame retardants in polymer nanocomposites and postpone the initiation of decomposition by hindering/slowing the oxidisation. When compared within two SiO2 based nanocomposites, the surface treatment seems to help mitigate the influences on base materials by achieving better filler dispersion and modify the cross-linking density at the interfacial areas by removing surface functional groups.
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Chen, Guanghui
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Qiang, Dayuan, Wang, Xinyu, Wang, Yan, Andritsch, Thomas and Chen, Guanghui (2019) Thermal stability of epoxy nanocomposites: surface treatment and morphology impact based on nano SiO2 and hBN fillers. Materials Research Express, 6 (10), 1-18. (doi:10.1088/2053-1591/ab3f8f).

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Abstract

Epoxy resin is one of the most commonly used thermosetting macromolecular synthetic materials. It displays excellent adhesiveness properties, good dielectric property, mechanical property and chemical stability. Consequently, epoxy resins have been widely used for many industrial purposes, such as electrical casting into power transformers, ignition coil systems and potting. In this paper, TGA and DSC measurements were carried out to evaluate the thermal stability of epoxy nanocomposites. Based on the results of dispersion and distribution of particles within epoxy nanocomposites, it concluded that both presences of nano SiO2 and hexagonal BN (hBN) particles have obvious impact on base materials in which the influences of latter particle are much more significant due to its shape, and thus both fillers leads to worse thermal stability than pure samples. However, particles could act as flame retardants in polymer nanocomposites and postpone the initiation of decomposition by hindering/slowing the oxidisation. When compared within two SiO2 based nanocomposites, the surface treatment seems to help mitigate the influences on base materials by achieving better filler dispersion and modify the cross-linking density at the interfacial areas by removing surface functional groups.

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Accepted/In Press date: 29 August 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 29 August 2019
Published date: 6 September 2019

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Local EPrints ID: 433763
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/433763
PURE UUID: 2d84da5e-3fe6-42f7-bbe5-2d02aa89fa9b
ORCID for Xinyu Wang: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9434-2906
ORCID for Thomas Andritsch: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3462-022X

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Date deposited: 03 Sep 2019 16:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 08:10

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Author: Dayuan Qiang
Author: Xinyu Wang ORCID iD
Author: Yan Wang
Author: Thomas Andritsch ORCID iD
Author: Guanghui Chen

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