Cure Kinetics of Samarium-Doped Fe3O4/Epoxy Nanocomposites

Maryam Jouyandeh; Mohammad Reza Ganjali; Mehdi Mehrpooya; Otman Abida; Karam Jabbour; Navid Rabiee; Sajjad Habibzadeh; Amin Hamed Mashahdzadeh; Alberto García-Peñas; Florian J. Stadler; Mohammad Reza Saeb

doi:10.3390/jcs6010029

Journal of Composites Science (Jan 2022)

Cure Kinetics of Samarium-Doped Fe3O4/Epoxy Nanocomposites

Maryam Jouyandeh,
Mohammad Reza Ganjali,
Mehdi Mehrpooya,
Otman Abida,
Karam Jabbour,
Navid Rabiee,
Sajjad Habibzadeh,
Amin Hamed Mashahdzadeh,
Alberto García-Peñas,
Florian J. Stadler,
Mohammad Reza Saeb

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Maryam Jouyandeh: Center of Excellence in Electrochemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Tehran, Tehran 14176-14411, Iran
Mohammad Reza Ganjali: Center of Excellence in Electrochemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Tehran, Tehran 14176-14411, Iran
Mehdi Mehrpooya: Department of Renewable Energies and Environment, Faculty of New Sciences and Technologies, University of Tehran, Tehran 14155-6619, Iran
Otman Abida: College of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East, P.O. Box 220, Dasman 15453, Kuwait
Karam Jabbour: College of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East, P.O. Box 220, Dasman 15453, Kuwait
Navid Rabiee: Department of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran 11155-9161, Iran
Sajjad Habibzadeh: Department of Chemical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran 15916-34311, Iran
Amin Hamed Mashahdzadeh: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan 010000, Kazakhstan
Alberto García-Peñas: College of Materials Science and Engineering, Guangdong Research Center for Interfacial Engineering of Functional Materials, Nanshan District Key Laboratory for Biopolymers and Safety Evaluation, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Polymer Science and Technology, Lihu Campus, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518055, China
Florian J. Stadler: College of Materials Science and Engineering, Guangdong Research Center for Interfacial Engineering of Functional Materials, Nanshan District Key Laboratory for Biopolymers and Safety Evaluation, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Polymer Science and Technology, Lihu Campus, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518055, China
Mohammad Reza Saeb: Department of Polymer Technology, Gdańsk University of Technology, G. Narutowicza 11/12, 80-233 Gdańsk, Poland

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/jcs6010029
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 6, no. 1
p. 29

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To answer the question “How does lanthanide doping in iron oxide affect cure kinetics of epoxy-based nanocomposites?”, we synthesized samarium (Sm)-doped Fe3O4 nanoparticles electrochemically and characterized it using Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), energy dispersive X-Ray analysis (EDX), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analyses (XPS). The magnetic particles were uniformly dispersed in epoxy resin to increase the curability of the epoxy/amine system. The effect of the lanthanide dopant on the curing reaction of epoxy with amine was explored by analyzing differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) experimental data based on a model-free methodology. It was found that Sm3+ in the structure of Fe3O4 crystal participates in cross-linking epoxy by catalyzing the reaction between epoxide rings and amine groups of curing agents. In addition, the etherification reaction of active OH groups on the surface of nanoparticles reacts with epoxy rings, which prolong the reaction time at the late stage of reaction where diffusion is the dominant mechanism.

Published in Journal of Composites Science

ISSN: 2504-477X (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Italy
LCC subjects: Technology; Science
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