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Dr David B Anthony

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Chemistry

Advanced Technical Project Coordinator
 
 
 
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@article{Liu:2019:10.1039/c8py01465e,
author = {Liu, B and Liu, C and De, Luca H and Raman, Pillai SK and Anthony, DB and Li, J and Bismarck, A and Shaffer, M and Chan-Park, MB},
doi = {10.1039/c8py01465e},
journal = {Polymer Chemistry},
pages = {1324--1334},
title = {Synthesis of epoxidized poly(ester carbonate)-b-polyimide-b-poly(ester carbonate): reactive single-walled carbon nanotube dispersants enable synergistic reinforcement around multi-walled nanotube-grafted carbon fibers},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c8py01465e},
volume = {10},
year = {2019}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Polyimides (PI) generally have a high affinity for single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), but they suffer from poor solubility in most low boiling point organic solvents and low compatibility with common resins (such as epoxy) used in composites, limiting their suitability as dispersants. PI block copolymer systems containing reactive poly(ester carbonate)s have not yet been reported and are expected to act as effective reactive dispersing agents of SWNTs. Herein, PI-derived block copolymers are synthesized via ring-opening copolymerization of lactide (LA) (a control monomer) and allyl-bearing 2-methyl-2-(allyloxycarbonyl)-propylene carbonate (MAC) from the OH-terminal ends of the PI block to produce PLA-PI-PLA (TB1, a control) and PMAC-PI-PMAC (TB2). The allyl pendant group of TB2 allows further facile functionalization to form a third series of epoxidized (EP) derivatives, i.e. PMACEP-block-PI-block-PMACEP (TB3). TB3 copolymer when mixed with a conventional structural epoxy resin forms blends that do not show inferior tensile properties compared with the epoxy, which is unusual. Furthermore, the mixing solvent tetrahydrofuran (THF) can be readily evaporated off after forming the blends. TB3-dispersed (2 wt%) SWNTs added to epoxy increased the tensile strength, modulus, and elongation at break of the resulting nanocomposite films by 40%, 34%, and 26% respectively, compared to the baseline epoxy resin. Furthermore, when TB3b triblock-dispersed SWNTs in epoxy were combined with fuzzy carbon fibers, i.e. carbon nanotube-grafted-carbon fibers (CNT-g-CF), a synergistic interfacial strength reinforcement was observed, together with shifting of the failure mode from the matrix interphase to the carbon fiber-grafted nanotube interface. The ultimate interfacial shear strength between the TB3-dispersed SWNT-epoxy matrix and the fuzzy carbon fibers (i.e., fibers having carbon nanotubes grown on them) measured via single fiber pull-out tests was 100 MPa, which was ca. 11% imp
AU  - Liu,B
AU  - Liu,C
AU  - De,Luca H
AU  - Raman,Pillai SK
AU  - Anthony,DB
AU  - Li,J
AU  - Bismarck,A
AU  - Shaffer,M
AU  - Chan-Park,MB
DO  - 10.1039/c8py01465e
EP  - 1334
PY  - 2019///
SN  - 1759-9954
SP  - 1324
TI  - Synthesis of epoxidized poly(ester carbonate)-b-polyimide-b-poly(ester carbonate): reactive single-walled carbon nanotube dispersants enable synergistic reinforcement around multi-walled nanotube-grafted carbon fibers
T2  - Polymer Chemistry
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c8py01465e
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/67118
VL  - 10
ER  -
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