Curing kinetics of epoxy/alkyl phosphonium modified nanoclay composites for high performance applications

Alkyl phosphonium salts are novel and unexplored modifiers for polymer based composites which can improve the clays compatibility and dispersion in the polymer matrix. These salts can enhance the thermal stability of the modified clays, which is an indispensable requirement for thermosetting composi...

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Autores: Lanfranconi, Matías, Ollier Primiano, Romina Paola, Penoff, Marcela Elisabeth, Alvarez, Vera Alejandra
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/2987
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/2987
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Nanocomposites
Clay
Kinetics
Ftir
Mdsc
Thermosets
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Sumario:Alkyl phosphonium salts are novel and unexplored modifiers for polymer based composites which can improve the clays compatibility and dispersion in the polymer matrix. These salts can enhance the thermal stability of the modified clays, which is an indispensable requirement for thermosetting composites curing and processing occurring at high temperatures. In this work, a raw bentonite was ion exchanged with tributyl(hexadecyl) phosphonium bromide and then a novel epoxy/nanoclay composite was synthesized. The curing kinetics of the nanocomposites was studied. An extensively kinetic study was performed by FT-IR analysis and models accounting for many potential reactions and diffusion restrictions were proposed. A relationship between the H-bonding interactions and the kinetics was found. Also, the effect of the modifier of bentonite was found to affect the reaction yield.