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Silver nanoparticles enhanced crystallization of polyethylene terephthalate-co-polyethylene glycol (PET-PEG) thermoplastic elastomer

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Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) based elastomers have witnessed increasing applications in various emerging fields, and the crystallization modification of the PET-based elastomers with functional nanoparticles is considered as the effective strategy for simultaneously improving their processing efficiency, mechanical properties as well as functionalities. Therefore, we herein have synthesized a range of silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) with different sizes using a high temperature resistance polymer as the surface capping agent. Furthermore, we found that the melt crystallization of a semi-crystallized PET-based elastomer, which was obtained by introducing the flexible polyethylene glycol (PEG1000) segment into PET backbone via condensation polymerization, can be effectively tuned by the synthesized Ag NPs with different sizes. The surface morphology, optical properties, crystallization behavior and mechanical properties of the Ag NPs modified PET-PEG elastomers have been systematically characterized using SEM, optical spectroscopy, DSC, XRD, polarized optical microscope and electromechanical analyzer. The results indicated that the Ag NPs with average size of ~ 60 nm serve as the optimized nucleating agent to not only accelerate the crystallization but also enhance the mechanical properties of PET-PEG elastomers (i.e., tensile strength and modulus were enhanced by 9.6% and 76.6%, respectively). Meanwhile, the intrinsic blue fluorescence emission of PET-PEG elastomers is well preserved after Ag NPs modification. Given the diverse functional properties of Ag NPs, the present work will open the new way for fabrication of multifunctional polyester elastomers with tunable mechanical properties.

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The authors gratefully thank the financial support from National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project No. 51403029), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (ZYGX2019J026), Sichuan Science and Technology Program (2020YFG0100, 2021YFH0023) and International Science and Technology Cooperation Project from Chengdu municipal government (2019-GH02-00037-HZ).

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He, X., Shou, H., Liu, X. et al. Silver nanoparticles enhanced crystallization of polyethylene terephthalate-co-polyethylene glycol (PET-PEG) thermoplastic elastomer. Polym. Bull. 79, 4593–4605 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00289-021-03725-7

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