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Carbon nanofibers reinforced soy polyol-based polyurethane nanocomposites

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Vapor-grown carbon nanofiber (CNF)-modified soy polyol-based polyurethane (PU) nanocomposites with different hydroxyl value of polyols (OH) were synthesized. The glass transition, thermal stability, mechanical properties, and morphology of the PU nanocomposites were characterized through differential scanning calorimetry, thermogravimetry, universal test machine, and scanning electron microscopy. The addition of CNFs increased the glass transition temperature as well as significantly improved tensile strength and Young’s modulus of PU nanocomposites. Meanwhile, thermal and mechanical properties of PU composites were influenced by the different hydroxyl value of polyols due to those different structures. In particular, in the case of 2 mass% CNF addition in PU derived from soy polyol with the OH number of 164 mg KOH g−1, 20.8 °C improvement in the glass transition temperature, 115 % increment in tensile strength, and nearly eightfold increase in Young’s modulus were obtained.

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The authors are grateful to the financial support from a project funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (PCSIRT) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (20620140066).

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    Weijing Liu, Ke Xu, Bin Qian, Yifan Sun, Yuge Zhang, Hongfeng Xie & Rongshi Cheng

  2. Department of Polymer Materials and Engineering, School of Materials Engineering, Yancheng Institute of Technology, Yancheng, 224051, China

    Chengshuang Wang

  3. College of Material Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510641, China

    Rongshi Cheng

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Liu, W., Xu, K., Wang, C. et al. Carbon nanofibers reinforced soy polyol-based polyurethane nanocomposites. J Therm Anal Calorim 123, 2459–2468 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-015-4690-1

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