# EFFECTS OF FUNCTIONALISATION ON CURING AND DECOMPOSITION BEHAVIOUR OF EPOXY-MWCNT NANOCOMPOSITES

> Title: EFFECTS OF FUNCTIONALISATION ON CURING AND DECOMPOSITION BEHAVIOUR OF EPOXY-MWCNT NANOCOMPOSITES Page Range: p.343-352 Author(s): Theodore M; Mahesh Hosur; Thomas J; Shaik Jeelani File size: 642K Download the pdf (subscribers only) Buy the pdf (non-subscribers) Journal: Polymers and Polymer Composites Issue...

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Published: 2012-04-01T00:00:00+00:00
Categories: Polymers and Polymer Composites

**Title: EFFECTS OF FUNCTIONALISATION ON CURING AND DECOMPOSITION BEHAVIOUR OF EPOXY-MWCNT NANOCOMPOSITES**
 Page Range: p.343-352
 Author(s): Theodore M; Mahesh Hosur; Thomas J; Shaik Jeelani
 File size: 642K
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 Journal: Polymers and Polymer Composites
 Issue Year: ppc
 Volume: 20
 Issue No: No.4

**Abstract**
 Cure kinetics and decomposition behaviour of a two part epoxy resin system, Epon 862, reinforced with 1 wt.% unmodified, oxidised (MWCNT-COOH) and fluorinated (MWCNT-F) multi-walled carbon nanotubes have been studied through dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) at different conversion levels. Functionalised MWCNTs have disturbed the curing/decomposition behaviour, crosslink density, and the interactions between individual phases in the composite systems thus altering cure kinetics parameters like degree of conversion, activation energy, rate of reaction, enthalpy change, percentage conversion, which were determined using Arrhenius theory. 29 Refs.

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