Effect of carbon black on electrical and rheological properties of graphite nanoplatelets/poly(ethylene-butyl acrylate) composites
Journal article, 2015

© BME-PT. The effect of adding carbon black on the electrical and rheological properties of graphite nanoplatelets/poly(ethylene- butyl acrylate) copolymer composites produced via melt or solution mixing was studied. By adding a small amount of low- or high-structured carbon black to the nanocomposite, the electrical percolation threshold decreased and the final conductivity (at higher filler contents) increased. The effect on the percolation threshold was significantly stronger in case of the high-structured carbon black where replacing 10 wt% of the total filler content with carbon black instead of graphite nanoplatelets reduced the electrical percolation threshold from 6.9 to 4.6 vol%. Finally, the solution mixing process was found to be more efficient leading to a lower percolation threshold. For the composites containing high-structured carbon black, graphite nanoplatelets and their hybrids there was a quite reasonable correlation between the electrical and rheological percolation thresholds.

melt mixing

nanocomposites

rheology

electrical properties

Author

Henrik Oxfall

Chalmers, Materials and Manufacturing Technology, Polymeric Materials and Composites

Giampaolo Ariu

Chalmers, Materials and Manufacturing Technology, Polymeric Materials and Composites

Thomas Gkourmpis

Borealis GmbH

Rodney Rychwalski

Chalmers, Materials and Manufacturing Technology, Polymeric Materials and Composites

Mikael Rigdahl

Chalmers, Materials and Manufacturing Technology, Polymeric Materials and Composites

Express Polymer Letters

1788-618X (ISSN)

Vol. 9 1 66-76

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Areas of Advance

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Materials Science

Subject Categories

Composite Science and Engineering

DOI

10.3144/expresspolymlett.2015.7

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