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Nasim Hadiashar

Nasim Hadiashar

Santa Clara University, USA

Title: Studying the effects of functionalized multi-wall Carbon nanotubes on mechanical and thermal properties of Epoxy composites

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Abstract

The goal of this study is to distinguish the effect of functionalized Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotubes (MWCNTs) on thermal and mechanical properties of epoxy composites. The custom-made epoxy resin system is composed of two different kinds of resin one with low viscosity (EPON 828) and the other one with high viscosity (EPON 1001F). The reason why functionalization of MWCNTs has been used is because of poor dispersion and aggromolation structures of CNTs. In order to overcome these obstacles, functionalization is prosperous method to strengthen interfacial adhesion between epoxy resin and MWCNTs. The CNTs were functionalized with carboxyl and diamine groups by different weight ratio of 0.1wt%, 0.2wt%, 0.5wt% and 1wt% of nanotubes during the process of functionalization. The performance of introduced approach is demonstrated through using thermal and mechanical analysis with different weight ratio. The result has been shown a decent increasement on curing temperature and Tg. Based on our TGA results, both Amin and carboxyl nano-functionalized samples have shown reduction in the amount of activation energy compared to neat epoxy sample. So it means that adding functionalized CNTs would decrease thermal stabilities and increase degradation efficiencies. In addition, nanocomposites with low loading levels of CNTs have been shown the greatest improvement in Tensile strength and Young’s modulus properties. The improvement in thermal and mechanical properties by addition of functionalized MWCNTs would extend the engineering application of epoxy resin composites.

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