On the role of TiO₂ nanoparticles on thermal behavior of flexible polyurethane foam sandwich panels

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• 作者：M. Keshavarz ; S. Mojtaba Zebarjad…
• 关键词：Sandwich panel ; Flexible polyurethane ; Foam ; TiO2 nanoparticles ; Thermal behavior ; Tanδ
• 刊名：Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：127
• 期：3
• 页码：2037-2048
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• 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
• 刊物主题：Physical Chemistry; Analytical Chemistry; Polymer Sciences; Inorganic Chemistry; Measurement Science and Instrumentation;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1588-2926
• 卷排序：127

文摘

A series of flexible polyurethane foam (FPUF) and monolithic polyurethane (PU) sandwich panels reinforced with different contents of TiO₂ nanoparticles (0, 0.5 and 1 mass%) have been successfully prepared by compression molding process at room temperature. The influence of TiO₂ nanoparticles on the thermal properties of PU matrix has been investigated by thermogravimetric and dynamic mechanical thermal analysis (DMTA). The morphology of porous structure of FPUF sandwich panels has been characterized by scanning electron microscopy. The presence of TiO₂ nanoparticles as reinforcement has improved the thermal properties of the FPUF and PU sandwich panel samples. It has been observed that FPUF and PU sandwich panel reinforced with 1 mass% of TiO₂ nanoparticles possessed the highest enhancement in thermal properties in all accomplished thermal tests. The DMTA results for the FPUF and PU sandwich panel reinforced with 1 mass% of TiO₂ nanoparticles indicated that the storage modulus and loss modulus have increased about 1.22 and 1.25 times, 1.5 and 1.55 times, respectively, compared to pure samples. Furthermore, the glass transition (T_g) obtained from the damping factor (tanδ) curves has increased 2 and 1 °C for FPUF and PU sandwich panels, respectively.