Polyamide 4.6 has excellent properties, such as high temperature resistance, crystallinity, fatigue resistance, melting temperature, excellent creep resistance, toughness, and good wear properties, but low thermal conductivity values. For this reason, its use in thermal applications has been limited. In this study, its use in thermal applications can be increased by increasing its thermal conductivity with carbon-based fillers and reinforcements added to the PA46 structure. The aim of this study is to examine the carbon fiber (CF), synthetic graphite (SG) and graphene nanoplatelet (G) loading on the mechanical, thermal, physical, and electrical properties of polyamide 4.6, which are produced using co-rotating twin-screw extrusion. Tensile and flexural strength of polyamide 4.6 increased with the addition of CF at all weight fractions. The highest electrical conductivity value was measured as 4.01 S/cm in PA46-20CF-20SG-3G composite material. The highest in-plane thermal conductivity achieved in this study at 20 wt% CF, 20 wt% synthetic graphite, and 5 wt% graphene loading was 20.43 W/mK. However, the highest through-plane thermal conductivity value was obtained to be 4.19 W/mK at 20 wt% CF. Graphene and synthetic graphite are more efficient to increase the inplane thermal conductivity, while CF is more efficient to increase the throughplane thermal conductivity.
In this study it was aimed to improve the fire retardant performance of halogen free flame-retardant polypropylene by increasing limiting oxygen index value. Ammonium polyphosphate, pentaerythritol, and ulexite were used to improve flame retardancy of polypropylene. Ulexite powder filled (1, 2, and 4 wt%) polypropylene composites were obtained by using a twin-screw extruder and injection molding method. Thermal, mechanical, and flame retardant performances of polypropylene composites were investigated by several characterization techniques. Limiting oxygen index value was obtained higher than 45% when ulexite was added into polypropylene at 1-4 wt%. It was observed that flame retardant additives do not change the mechanical properties considerably. The effect of ulexite addition on melting and crystallization temperatures of polypropylene-based composite is not pronounced.
Syndiotactic polystyrene (SPS) has attracted considerable
attention recently
due to its high melting temperature, low cost, and relatively low
density value. The aim of the study is to reveal whether a blend of
PPS and SPS (PPS–SPS) can be used instead of PPS for high thermal
stability, high mechanical performance, and high thermal conductive
material applications. For this aim, poly(phenylene sulfide)/syndiotactic
polystyrene-based carbon-loaded composite materials were prepared
using a twin screw extruder. Two carbon-based materials, carbon fiber
(CF) and synthetic graphite (SG), were used to improve the mechanical
properties and thermal conductivity of the PPS–SPS blends.
Through-plane conductivity values of PPS-30SG-10CF and PPS–SPS-30SG-10CF
were obtained to be 13.67 and 12.92 W/mK, with densities of 1.55 and
1.50 g/cm3, respectively. It was demonstrated that PPS–SPS
blend-based carbon-loaded composites have great potential to be used
in thermal management applications with the advantages of relatively
low cost and lightweight compared to PPS-based composites.
In comparison with conventional polyamides, polyamide 4.6 is known as one of the hightemperature polyamides due to polymer chain constituents which also enhances its dimensional stability, creep resistance, and chemical resistance. The effect of hybrid synthetic graphite and graphene nanoplatelets fillers on thermal conductivity of polyamide 4.6 based composites was investigated in this study. Synthetic graphite and graphene nanoplatelets filled polyamide 4.6 based composites were fabricated using a twin-screw extruder. The variations on electrical, mechanical, thermal, and morphological properties were also examined. The highest in-plane and through-plane thermal conductivity values were obtained for hybrid 40 wt.% synthetic graphite and 5 wt.% graphene nanoplatelets filled composites as 21.65 and 4.04 W/mK, respectively. It was reported that the usage of hybrid carbon fillers in polyamide 4.6 leads to better thermal conductivity value..
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