Electrical, rheological and morphological studies in co-continuous blends of polyamide 6 and acrylonitrile–butadiene–styrene with multiwall carbon nanotubes prepared by melt blending

Carbon nanotube buckypaper reinforced polymer composites: a review

“…After several years of research, the full potential of CNTs as reinforcements has been limited due to the issues associated with dispersion of entangled CNT during processing and poor interfacial interaction between nanofillers and polymer matrix [26][27][28][29] . Carbon nanotubes have a tendency to form agglomerates during synthesis because of van der Waals attraction between nanotubes, leading in most cases to the formation of large agglomerates in polymer matrices, as can be seen in Figure 2.…”

Nanocomposites of Multiphase Polymer Blend Reinforced with Carbon Nanotubes: Processing and Characterization

“…Well-studied multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) with a unique structure and properties became an important group due to the offered improvement of properties. MWCNT in nanocomposites can boost electrical and thermal conductivity [6][7][8] by orders of magnitude over the performance achievable with traditional carbon fillers in similar weight percentages. [9] Two main types of carbon nanostructures with different origin and properties are present in nowadays technology.…”

“…More materials are investigated, including: polystyrene/MWCNT, [63] poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile)/MWCNT (SAN/MWCNT) [109] and finally to terpolymer-based nanocomposite poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile-cobutadiene)/MWCNT (ABS/MWCNT). [8,[72][73]75] This brings the investigation to the desired point: PC/ABS-MWCNT nanocomposite [4,5] and PC/ABS as a final material. [74,150] Orientation of nanotubes in skin layer was found in samples processed with high injection speeds and reduced temperature, while the opposite sequence of parameters gave no alignment.…”

“…[8,45,50,56,77,83,93,129] This parameter is a mathematical term describing the randomly formed network and probability of interconnection between particles. Lattices of filler in matrix are theoretically forming ordered or random pattern described mathematically.…”

“…Great number of twin-screw extrusion of major engineering polymer-based nanocomposites exists. High impact polystyrene (HIPS), [63] polypropylene (PP), [64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71] acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene terpolymer (ABS), [8,[71][72][73][74] polyamide 6 (PA6) [75][76][77][78][79][80][81][82] or polycarbonates (PC) [5,56,[83][84][85][86] and polyurethanes (PUR) [87][88][89] are already widely investigated.…”