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Dispersion characteristics of polypropylene/organo-modified single-walled carbon nanotube composites with a long-chain phosphonic acid added as the third dispersant component and their drawn orientation

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A simple substance was added as the third component to a composite material comprising polypropylene (PP), a general-purpose resin, and long-chain phosphonate-modified single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) to improve the filler dispersibility of the composite. Although SWCNTs with high aggregation characteristics could be introduced into organic polymers by modifying the organic chains on the outermost surface of the nanoparticles, their dispersibility was not sufficient. As a compound with a low molecular weight, a stearyl phosphonic acid was used as the modifier in this study. Due to the high sublimation temperature of this modifier, which exceeded the melting point of PP, a jet-black composite with high dispersibility was obtained when the modifier was added as the third component during melt-compounding. The jet-black three-component composite film exhibited better tensile properties than the two-component composite film. Analyzing the stretch orientation characteristics, the uniaxial stretching process induced deagglomeration, eliminating the difference in the initial dispersion states of the composites.

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Acknowledgements

The authors greatly appreciate the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) for providing a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI, C, 21K05180 (A.F.)). In addition, this study was also supported by a fund of the Casio Science Promotion Foundation. Further, authors also thank Mr. Takeyoshi Kato, ZEON Corporation, for the providing of carbon nanotube samples.

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    Takuto Hayasaki, Ko Harada, Kai Xu, Ahmed A. Almarasy & Atsuhiro Fujimori

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Hayasaki, T., Harada, K., Xu, K. et al. Dispersion characteristics of polypropylene/organo-modified single-walled carbon nanotube composites with a long-chain phosphonic acid added as the third dispersant component and their drawn orientation. Polym. Bull. 80, 2413–2435 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00289-022-04175-5

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