STUDY OF EFFICIENCY OF HALLOYSITE NANOTUBES DISPERGATION IN POLY(VINYL ACETATE) MATRIX

1 MENČÍK Přemysl
Co-authors:
1 PŘIKRYL Radek 1 MELČOVÁ Veronika
Institution:
1 Brno University of Technology, Purkyňova 464/118, 612 00 Brno, Czech Republic, mencik@vutbr.cz
Conference:
10th International Conference on Nanomaterials - Research & Application, Hotel Voronez I, Brno, Czech Republic, EU, October 17th - 19th 2018
Proceedings:
Proceedings 10th International Conference on Nanomaterials - Research & Application
Pages:
647-651
ISBN:
978-80-87294-89-5
ISSN:
2694-930X
Published:
28th February 2019
Proceedings of the conference were published in Web of Science and Scopus.
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Abstract

Nanocomposite system formed by poly(vinyl acetate) (PVAc) matrix and halloysite nanotubes (HNT) filler was prepared in three different ways. The first method was kneading the composite melt in laboratory kneader. The second one was direct emulsion polymerization of vinyl acetate in the presence of HNT. The third method of composite preparation was to disperse HNT in toluene solution of PVAc in planetary ball mill. The filler content was 10 wt. % in all composites. The samples from all three preparation methods were subjected to the observation of nanoparticles dispergation efficiency within the bulk material using SEM. The best level of particles dispersion was achieved using the ball mill. The particles were effectively dispersed, forming the agglomerates in the range from below one micrometer down to single nanotubes.

Keywords: Nanocomposite, halloysite, dispergation, ball mill

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