TY - JOUR
T1 - Electrospun CF-PHA nanocomposites
T2 - Effect of surface modifications of carbon fibers
AU - Jin, Xing
AU - Fan, Ying
AU - Xue, Yanming
AU - Wu, Liwei
AU - Lu, Ying
AU - Chen, Jinpeng
AU - Wang, Xuepeng
AU - Dong, Dongmei
AU - Meng, Fanbin
AU - Lu, Yuebin
AU - Wood, Jeffery T.
AU - Tang, Chengchun
PY - 2014/3/24
Y1 - 2014/3/24
N2 - Biodegradable polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) based polymer nanocomposite filled with nanoscale carbon fibers (CFs) were prepared by electrospinning. To enhance the processability and thermal properties of the composites, the carbon fibers were treated with chemical reagents, namely n-octanol, silane coupling agent (KH-550), and nitric acid (HNO3). The SEM result shows that the composite fibers with nitric acid treated CFs have the finest diameters and many uniform thickness distributions. All surface treatments on carbon fibers have increased the glass transition temperatures and crystallinities of the composites, with nitric acid treatment being the best. The improvements further depended on the volume fraction of the carbon fibers.
AB - Biodegradable polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) based polymer nanocomposite filled with nanoscale carbon fibers (CFs) were prepared by electrospinning. To enhance the processability and thermal properties of the composites, the carbon fibers were treated with chemical reagents, namely n-octanol, silane coupling agent (KH-550), and nitric acid (HNO3). The SEM result shows that the composite fibers with nitric acid treated CFs have the finest diameters and many uniform thickness distributions. All surface treatments on carbon fibers have increased the glass transition temperatures and crystallinities of the composites, with nitric acid treatment being the best. The improvements further depended on the volume fraction of the carbon fibers.
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U2 - 10.1080/00914037.2013.830253
DO - 10.1080/00914037.2013.830253
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84891611796
SN - 0091-4037
VL - 63
SP - 262
EP - 267
JO - International Journal of Polymeric Materials and Polymeric Biomaterials
JF - International Journal of Polymeric Materials and Polymeric Biomaterials
IS - 5
ER -