Synthesis and Crystallization Studies of Thermo-plastic Polyster/Titania Nanocomposites

Authors

  • Harshita Agrawal Department of Physics, Banasthali University, Banasthali-304022, Tonk, India
  • Shalini Agarwal Department of Physics, Banasthali University, Banasthali-304022, Tonk, India
  • Yogendra K. Saraswat Department of Chemistry, SV (PG) College, Aligarh, UP, India
  • Kamlendra Awasthi Department of Physics, MNIT, Jaipur-302018, India
  • Vibhav K. Saraswat Department of Physics, Banasthali University, Banasthali-304022, Tonk, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15415/jnp.2014.12016

Keywords:

XRD, DSC, crystallization temperature, polymer nanocomposites

Abstract

The present work reports the non-isothermal crystallization kinetics of PET-TiO2 nanocomposites. The average particle size of TiO2 nanoparticles, prepared by chemical route, has been calculated 32 nm using Debay-Scherrer’s formula in XRD peaks. PET-TiO2 nanocomposites have been synthesized using solution casting method. The investigation of non-isothermal crystallization behavior has been conducted by means of Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC). The crystallization temperature shift to lower temperature for both PET pristine and PET-TiO2 nanocomposites due to decrease in mobility of chain segments and heterogeneous nucleation. Also, the inclusion of TiO2 nanoparticles may accelerate nucleation rate in nanocomposites that causes the crystallization time and absolute crystallinity fraction. The thermal conductivity of inorganic filler TiO2 nanoparticles may affect the crystallization temperature.

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2014-02-24

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Agrawal, H. .; Agarwal, S. .; Saraswat, Y. K. .; Awasthi, K. .; Saraswat, V. K. . Synthesis and Crystallization Studies of Thermo-Plastic Polyster/Titania Nanocomposites. J. Nucl. Phy. Mat. Sci. Rad. A. 2014, 1, 207-211.

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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2014)

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