Properties of light weight multi walled carbon nano tubes (MWCNTs) nano-composites

Abstract

The researchers are applying different methods to increase the performance of nanocomposites. There are some techniques that will used to increase the properties of epoxy resins for example attachment of functional groups to the carbon nanotubes, better dispersal techniques to disperse the nanofillers into the polymer matrices and so on. In this research, we made a comparative study on epoxy with different weight ratio of MWCNTs. Based on observation and experiment, developing an experimental relation between changes in different types of properties. For this purpose, a combination of epoxy resin (Araldite® LY 5052) and hardeners (Aradur® HY 5052) was dispersed into the matrix, and then the effect of this epoxy based matrix was investigated after dispersing p-MWCNTs and f-MWCNTs.

Keywords

• Multi walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs)
• Pristine MWCNTs (p-MWCNTs)
• Functionalized MWCNTs (f-MWCNTs)
• Epoxy
• Glass transition temperature (Tg)