Transparent flexible ZnO/MWCNTs/pbma ternary nanocomposite film with enhanced mechanical properties

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• 作者：Xingwei Han ; Xiaofei Zeng ; Jiexin Wang ; Dejia Kong ; N. R. Foster…
• 刊名：SCIENCE CHINA Chemistry
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：August 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：59
• 期：8
• 页码：1010-1017
• 全文大小：1,649 KB
• 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
• 刊物主题：Chemistry
  Chinese Library of Science
  Chemistry
  
• 出版者：Science China Press, co-published with Springer
• ISSN：1869-1870
• 卷排序：59

文摘

Functional organic-inorganic nanocomposites with high transparency show significant potential application in many fields. However, it is still a great challenge to prepare flexible transparent nanocomposites due to the intrinsic stiffness of the nanoparticles and the poor interaction between nanoparticles and organic matrices. In this work, a transparent ternary nanocomposite film with enhanced mechanical performance is fabricated by two-steps. First, the transparent ternary ZnO/MWCNTs/n-butyl methacrylate (BMA) nanodispersion is prepared by mixing the ZnO/BMA and MWCNTs/BMA dispersions directly. Then, the ternary nanocoposites film is fabricated via in-situ bulk polymerization of the above nanodispersions. As a result, the tensile strength of the ZnO/MWCNTs/poly-n-butyl methacrylate (PBMA) ternary film is enhanced by 42% and the elongation at break is three times that of ZnO/PBMA nanocomposite. The hardness of the film increases from 5B to 1H with 40 wt% ZnO. These results indicate that ZnO and MWCNTs can improve the mechanical properties of the composite significantly. Importantly, the ternary nanocomposite film still remains high transparency and exhibit excellent UV-shielding performance. The as-prepared transparent multifunctional nanocomposite films have promising applications in optical materials and devices, such as optical filters, contact lenses and protection packing.KeywordsZnOcarbon nanotubestransparent ternary nanocompositeUV-shieldingmechanical properties