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Preparation and Properties of Polyvinyl Chloride/Carbon Nanotubes Composite

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Chemically functionalized carbon nanotubes were combined with PVC to enhance both toughness and strength by simply mixing long alkyl chain modified multi-wall carbon nanotubes (abbreviated as MWNTs) or Ester-functionalized soluble MWNTs (abbreviated as eMWNTs) with PVC in Tetrahydrofuran (THF)/Cyclohexanone (CH) solution to obtain good dispersity solution. The MWNTs modified with 1-Bromohexadecane can effectively increase the intermolecular force with PVC by hydrogen bond. The obtained nanocomposite has a regular shape with homogeneously dispersed particles. PVC/2 wt% eMWNTs has been proved to possess excellent thermal stability. The intermolecular force between eMWNTs and PVC endows the as-fabricated nanocomposite with enhanced toughness and strength, indicating that our method is promising for wide use in PVC/eMWNTs nanocomposition.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China

    Jiashun Tao  (陶家顺), Yujun Qin  (秦玉军), Pu Zhang & Zhixin Guo  (郭志新)

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Funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.21173266, 21473250) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No.11XNJ021), the Research Funds of Renmin University of China

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Tao, J., Qin, Y., Zhang, P. et al. Preparation and Properties of Polyvinyl Chloride/Carbon Nanotubes Composite. J. Wuhan Univ. Technol.-Mat. Sci. Edit. 34, 516–520 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11595-019-2081-3

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