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Synergistic effect of carbon nanotube on improving thermal stability, flame retardancy, and electrical conductivity of poly(butylene succinate)/piperazine pyrophosphate composites

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Biodegradable poly(butylene succinate) (PBS) is considered as promising material to replace conventional nondegradable polymers in various engineering fields, but the applications are limited by its inherent flammability and low electrical conductivity. In this study, the synergistic effect of carbon nanotube (CNTs) on improving thermal stability, flame retardancy, and electrical conductivity of poly(butylene succinate)/piperazine pyrophosphate (PBS/PAPP) composites was investigated. Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) demonstrated that the addition of CNTs could improve the thermal stability of PBS/PAPP composites, where the maximum mass loss temperature (Tmax) of PBS/18PAPP-2CNT increased by 9.1 °C in comparison with that of PBS/20PAPP. Meanwhile, PBS/18PAPP-2CNT exhibited the optimal flame retardancy with limited oxygen index (LOI) of 30.1%, V0 rating in UL-94 vertical burning test, and 79.6% reduction on the peak of heat release rate (PHRR) in cone calorimeter test. The synergistic effect of CNTs and PAPP was beneficial to construct high-quality char layer, resulting in the enhanced flame retardancy of PBS. Furthermore, the CNTs could improve the electrical conductivity of PBS/PAPP composites with low percolation threshold of 1.75 wt%, which was ascribed to the “volume excluded effect” of PAPP. Thus, the current work provided an efficient strategy to prepare multifunctional PBS composites to meet various engineering applications.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 22175102) and Taishan Scholar Constructive Engineering Foundation of Shandong Province (tsqn202103079).

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    Yiming Wang & Dayong Jiang

  2. Department of Biology and Chemical Engineering, Jining Polytechnic, Jining, 272037, China

    Fanjing Meng

  3. Institute of Advanced Electrical Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266042, China

    Junling Zhu, Zhaotian Ba & Xin Wen

  4. Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, China

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Yiming Wang: fabricated and characterized the samples, wrote the original manuscript; Fanjing Meng: participated part of the sample preparation; Junling Zhu: participated part of the sample characterization; Zhaotian Ba: participated part of the sample characterization; Dayong Jiang: writing—review and editing, supervision; Xin Wen: funding acquisition, writing—review and editing, supervision; Tao Tang: writing—review and editing, supervision.

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Wang, Y., Meng, F., Zhu, J. et al. Synergistic effect of carbon nanotube on improving thermal stability, flame retardancy, and electrical conductivity of poly(butylene succinate)/piperazine pyrophosphate composites. Colloid Polym Sci 301, 1529–1537 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00396-023-05166-2

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