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    Citation - WoS: 34
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    Effects of Organo-Modified Clay Addition and Temperature on the Water Vapor Barrier Properties of Polyhydroxy Butyrate Homo and Copolymer Nanocomposite Films for Packaging Applications
    (Springer Verlag, 2018) Akın, Okan; Tıhmınlıoğlu, Funda
    Polymer nanocomposites, based on bacterial biodegradable thermoplastic polyester, poly(hydroxy-butyrate) (PHB), poly(hydroxyl-butyrate-co-hydroxy-valerate) (PHBHV), and commercial organo-modified montmorillonite (OMMT-Cloisite 10A) were prepared by solution casting method. This work aims to investigate the effect of Cloisite 10A type clay addition on the water vapour permeability properties of PHB/OMMT, and PHBHV/OMMT nanobiocomposite films. Temperature dependence of water vapor permeabilities of the films were also evaluated at various temperatures, and semi empirical permeability models were used to predict the permeability of polymer systems as a function of clay concentration and aspect ratio of nanoplates. Moreover, thermal, optical, and mechanical properties of the composites were examined by using varieties of techniques including differential scanning calorimeter (DSC), thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA), scanning electron microscope (SEM), and thin-film X-ray diffractometer (TF-XRD) respectively. Test results indicated that addition of highly intergallery swollen Cloisite 10A to the PHB/PHBHV, reduced the water vapor permeability up to 41 and 25% compared to native PHB and PHBHV films, respectively. Regarding the all mechanical properties measured, the maximum improvement was achieved for 3 wt% clay loaded samples for both PHB and PHBHV polymer composites. An increase of about 152 and 73% in tensile strength and of 77 and 18% in strain at break was achieved for PHB and PHBHV polymers, respectively. As a result of X-ray diffraction analysis, exfoliated structure was achieved at low clay loaded sample (1% w/w), however at higher concentration (3% w/w) the structure found as intercalated. Therefore, it is an evident that enhancement of characteristic properties highly depend on the dispersion level of clay particles in polymer matrix. The results obtained in this study show the feasibility of improvement of the properties of PHB based polymers with incorporation of nanoclay.
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    Citation - WoS: 39
    Citation - Scopus: 48
    Temperature Dependence of Electrical Conductivity in Double-Wall and Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotube/Polyester Nanocomposites
    (Springer Verlag, 2007) Şimşek, Yılmaz; Özyüzer, Lütfi; Seyhan, Abdullah Tuğrul; Tanoğlu, Metin; Schulte, Karl
    The aim of this study is to investigate temperature dependence of electrical conductivity of carbon nanotube (CNT)/polyester nanocomposites from room temperature to 77 K using four-point probe test method. To produce nanocomposites, various types and amounts of CNTs (0.1, 0.3 and 0.5 wt.%) were dispersed via 3-roll mill technique within a specially formulized resin blend of thermoset polyesters. CNTs used in the study include multi walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) and double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWCNT) with and without amine functional groups (-NH2). It was observed that the incorporation of carbon nanotubes into resin blend yields electrically percolating networks and electrical conductivity of the resulting nanocomposites increases with increasing amount of nanotubes. However, nanocomposites containing amino functionalized carbon nanotubes exhibit relatively lower electrical conductivity compared to those with non-functionalized carbon nanotubes. To get better interpretation of the mechanism leading to conductive network via CNTs with and without amine functional groups, the experimental results were fitted to fluctuation-induced tunneling through the barriers between the metallic regions model. It was found that the results are in good agreement with prediction of proposed model.