Kim, Jihun Kwak, Soonjong Hong, Soon Man Lee, Jae Rock Takahara, Atsushi Seo, Yongsok 2024-01-20T18:02:06Z 2024-01-20T18:02:06Z 2021-09-04 2010-12-28 0024-9297 https://pubs.kist.re.kr/handle/201004/130809 Thermal properties and nonisothermal crystallization kinetics of polyolefin nanocomposites (high-density polyethylene/multiwalled carbon nanotubes) were characterized by differential scanning calorimetry and thermogravimetric analysis In situ metallocence polymerization was used to prepare nanocomposites of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) and high-density polyethylene (HDPE) This polymerization method consists of attaching a metallocene catalyst complex onto the surface of the MWCNTs followed by surface initiated polymerization to generate polymer brushes on the surface A kinetic equation for the nonisothermal crystallization was employed to analyze the crystallization characteristics of the nanocomposites The Avramic exponent, n, can be reasonably well determined from the nonisothermal crystallization exotherm The polarized optical microscopy showed that neat polyethylene possessed a well-developed spherulite morphology, whereas the nanocomposites displayed elongated entities that subsequently developed as bundlelike entities Nonisothermal analysis implicitly provides clues about the morphological development history and HDPE molecular ordering around the carbon nanotubes English AMER CHEMICAL SOC NANOTUBE/POLYETHYLENE NANOCOMPOSITES ELECTRICAL-CONDUCTIVITY MORPHOLOGY KINETICS COMPOSITES NUCLEATION Nonisothermal Crystallization Behaviors of Nanocomposites Prepared by In Situ Polymerization of High-Density Polyethylene on Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes Article 10.1021/ma102036h 1 MACROMOLECULES, v.43, no.24, pp.10545 - 10553 MACROMOLECULES 43 24 10545 10553 scie scopus 000285429400053 2-s2.0-78650501078 Polymer Science Polymer Science Article NANOTUBE/POLYETHYLENE NANOCOMPOSITES ELECTRICAL-CONDUCTIVITY MORPHOLOGY KINETICS COMPOSITES NUCLEATION polyethylene carbon nanotube in situ polymerization nanocomposite crystallization