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Transparent poly(methyl methacrylate)/TiO2 nanocomposites for UV-shielding applications

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Transparent poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA)/TiO2 nanocomposites have been prepared by solution mixing PMMA with organically soluble titania xerogel. The organically soluble titania xerogel in the form of amorphous phase has been synthesized via a simple sol-gel method, involving hydrolysis of tetrabutyl titanate (TBT) in trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) and gelation. The obtained PMMA/TiO2 nanocomposites were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), transmission electron microscope (TEM), thermogravimetry (TG) and ultraviolet-visible (UV-vis) absorption spectroscopy. The results showed that the interaction between titania nanoparticles and PMMA macromolecular chains led to a homogeneous dispersion of TiO2 in PMMA matrix. The resulting PMMA/TiO2 nanocomposites showed improved thermal stability, high transparency and high UV-shielding efficiency with a small amount of titania xerogel (≤3.0 wt %). The present work is of interest for developing a series of transparent UV-shielding nanocomposites.

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    Xiangfu Meng, Zhiwei Zhang, Nan Luo & Shengli Cao

  2. Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science, Key Laboratory of Engineering Plastics, Joint Laboratory of Polymer Science and Materials, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

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Meng, X., Zhang, Z., Luo, N. et al. Transparent poly(methyl methacrylate)/TiO2 nanocomposites for UV-shielding applications. Polym. Sci. Ser. A 53, 977–983 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0965545X11100099

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