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Viscoelastic Responses of Inorganic-Oranic Hybrids Polymers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

Andre Lee*
Affiliation:
Materials Science and Mechancis Department, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI. 48824, [email protected]
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Abstract

The properties of nano-structured plastics are determined by complex relationships between the type and size of the nano-reinforcement, the interface and chemical interaction between the nano-reinforcement and the polymeric chain, along with macroscopic processing and microstructural effects. In this paper we investigated the thermal and viscoelastic property enhancement on crosslinked epoxy using two types of nano-reinforcement, namely organoion exchange clay and polymerizable polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) macromers. Glass transitions of these nano-composites were studied using differential scanning calorimetry. Small strain stress relaxation under uniaxial deformation was examined to provide insights into the timedependent viscoelastic behavior of these nano-composites. Since the size of POSS macromer is comparable to the distance between molecular junctions, hence as we increase the amount of POSS macromers, the glass transition temperature, Tg, as observed by DSC increase. However for epoxy network reinforced with clay, we did not observe any effect on the Tg due to the presence of clay reinforcements. In small strain stress relaxation experiments, both types of reinforcement provided some enhancement in creep resistance, namely the characteristic relaxation time as determined using a stretched exponential relaxation function increased with the addition of reinforcements. However, due to different reinforcement mechanisms, enhancement in the instantaneous modulus was observed for clay-reinforced epoxies, while the instantaneous modulus was not effected in POSS-epoxy nano-composites.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1999

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