Transparent flexible ZnO/MWCNTs/pbma ternary nanocomposite film with enhanced mechanical properties
© 2016, Science China Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Functional organic-inorganic nanocomposites with high transparency show significant potential application in many fields. However, it is still a great challenge to prepare flexible transparent nanocomposites due to the intrinsic stif...
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Zhongguo Kexue Zazhishe
2016
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| author | Han, X. Zeng, X. Wang, J. Kong, D. Foster, Neil Chen, J. |
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| description | © 2016, Science China Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Functional organic-inorganic nanocomposites with high transparency show significant potential application in many fields. However, it is still a great challenge to prepare flexible transparent nanocomposites due to the intrinsic stiffness of the nanoparticles and the poor interaction between nanoparticles and organic matrices. In this work, a transparent ternary nanocomposite film with enhanced mechanical performance is fabricated by two-steps. First, the transparent ternary ZnO/MWCNTs/n-butyl methacrylate (BMA) nanodispersion is prepared by mixing the ZnO/BMA and MWCNTs/BMA dispersions directly. Then, the ternary nanocoposites film is fabricated via in-situ bulk polymerization of the above nanodispersions. As a result, the tensile strength of the ZnO/MWCNTs/poly-n-butyl methacrylate (PBMA) ternary film is enhanced by 42% and the elongation at break is three times that of ZnO/PBMA nanocomposite. The hardness of the film increases from 5B to 1H with 40 wt% ZnO. These results indicate that ZnO and MWCNTs can improve the mechanical properties of the composite significantly. Importantly, the ternary nanocomposite film still remains high transparency and exhibit excellent UV-shielding performance. The as-prepared transparent multifunctional nanocomposite films have promising applications in optical materials and devices, such as optical filters, contact lenses and protection packing. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-718112018-12-13T09:32:08Z Transparent flexible ZnO/MWCNTs/pbma ternary nanocomposite film with enhanced mechanical properties Han, X. Zeng, X. Wang, J. Kong, D. Foster, Neil Chen, J. © 2016, Science China Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Functional organic-inorganic nanocomposites with high transparency show significant potential application in many fields. However, it is still a great challenge to prepare flexible transparent nanocomposites due to the intrinsic stiffness of the nanoparticles and the poor interaction between nanoparticles and organic matrices. In this work, a transparent ternary nanocomposite film with enhanced mechanical performance is fabricated by two-steps. First, the transparent ternary ZnO/MWCNTs/n-butyl methacrylate (BMA) nanodispersion is prepared by mixing the ZnO/BMA and MWCNTs/BMA dispersions directly. Then, the ternary nanocoposites film is fabricated via in-situ bulk polymerization of the above nanodispersions. As a result, the tensile strength of the ZnO/MWCNTs/poly-n-butyl methacrylate (PBMA) ternary film is enhanced by 42% and the elongation at break is three times that of ZnO/PBMA nanocomposite. The hardness of the film increases from 5B to 1H with 40 wt% ZnO. These results indicate that ZnO and MWCNTs can improve the mechanical properties of the composite significantly. Importantly, the ternary nanocomposite film still remains high transparency and exhibit excellent UV-shielding performance. The as-prepared transparent multifunctional nanocomposite films have promising applications in optical materials and devices, such as optical filters, contact lenses and protection packing. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/71811 10.1007/s11426-015-0467-4 Zhongguo Kexue Zazhishe restricted |
| spellingShingle | Han, X. Zeng, X. Wang, J. Kong, D. Foster, Neil Chen, J. Transparent flexible ZnO/MWCNTs/pbma ternary nanocomposite film with enhanced mechanical properties |
| title | Transparent flexible ZnO/MWCNTs/pbma ternary nanocomposite film with enhanced mechanical properties |
| title_full | Transparent flexible ZnO/MWCNTs/pbma ternary nanocomposite film with enhanced mechanical properties |
| title_fullStr | Transparent flexible ZnO/MWCNTs/pbma ternary nanocomposite film with enhanced mechanical properties |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transparent flexible ZnO/MWCNTs/pbma ternary nanocomposite film with enhanced mechanical properties |
| title_short | Transparent flexible ZnO/MWCNTs/pbma ternary nanocomposite film with enhanced mechanical properties |
| title_sort | transparent flexible zno/mwcnts/pbma ternary nanocomposite film with enhanced mechanical properties |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/71811 |