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    Pressure- and Temperature-Dependent Crystallization Kinetics of Isotactic Polypropylene under Process Relevant Conditions
    (Basel : MDPI, 2021) Spoerer, Yvonne; Boldt, Regine; Androsch, René; Kuehnert, Ines
    In this study, a non-nucleated homopolymer (HP) and random copolymer (RACO), as well as a nucleated HP and heterophasic copolymer (HECO) were investigated regarding their crystallization kinetics. Using pvT-measurements and fast scanning chip calorimetry (FSC), the crystallization behavior was analyzed as a function of pressure, cooling rate and temperature. It is shown that pressure and cooling rate have an opposite influence on the crystallization temperature of the materials. Furthermore, the addition of nucleating agents to the material has a significant effect on the maximum cooling rate at which the formation of α-crystals is still possible. The non-nucleated HP and RACO materials show significant differences that can be related to the sterically hindering effect of the comonomer units of RACO on crystallization, while the nucleated materials HP and HECO show similar crystallization kinetics despite their different structures. The pressure-dependent shift factor of the crystallization temperature is independent of the material. The results contribute to the description of the relationship between the crystallization kinetics of the material and the process parameters influencing the injection-molding induced morphology. This is required to realize process control in injection molding in order to produce pre-defined morphologies and to design material properties.
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    Melt mixed SWCNT-polypropylene composites with very low electrical percolation
    (Oxford : Elsevier Science, 2016) Krause, Beate; Pötschke, Petra; Ilin, Evgeniy; Predtechenskiy, Mikhail
    Singlewalled carbon nanotube material of the type TUBALL™ (OCSiAl) was used to prepare composites with polypropylene by melt mixing using a conical twin screw micro-compounder. The compression moulded composites showed electrical percolation between 0.075 and 0.1 wt % and achieved volume resistivity values lower than 1 kOhm-cm already at 0.8 wt % loading. Light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy revealed good distribution and dispersion into small diameter bundles as well as retained high nanotube length. In connection with the very low percolation threshold this indicates that the SWCNT material shows an exceptionally good dispersibility which may be due to relatively high nanotube diameters with a mean value of 1.6 nm. In tensile tests already 0.1 wt % nanotube additions resulted in slight increase in Young's modulus and maximum stress. Tuball™ SWCNT material seems to be very promising for conductivity enhancement.
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    Nonlinear Thermopower Behaviour of N-Type Carbon Nanofibres and Their Melt Mixed Polypropylene Composites
    (Basel : MDPI, 2022-1-10) Paleo, Antonio J.; Krause, Beate; Cerqueira, Maria F.; Muñoz, Enrique; Pötschke, Petra; Rocha, Ana M.
    The temperature dependent electrical conductivity σ (T) and thermopower (Seebeck coeffi-cient) S (T) from 303.15 K (30◦ C) to 373.15 K (100◦ C) of an as-received commercial n-type vapour grown carbon nanofibre (CNF) powder and its melt-mixed polypropylene (PP) composite with 5 wt.% of CNFs have been analysed. At 30◦ C, the σ and S of the CNF powder are ~136 S m−1 and −5.1 µV K−1, respectively, whereas its PP/CNF composite showed lower conductivities and less negative S-values of ~15 S m−1 and −3.4 µV K−1, respectively. The σ (T) of both samples presents a dσ/dT < 0 character described by the 3D variable range hopping (VRH) model. In contrast, their S (T) shows a dS/dT > 0 character, also observed in some doped multiwall carbon nanotube (MWCNT) mats with nonlinear thermopower behaviour, and explained here from the contribution of impurities in the CNF structure such as oxygen and sulphur, which cause sharply varying and localized states at approximately 0.09 eV above their Fermi energy level (EF).
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    Melt-mixed PP/MWCNT composites: Influence of CNT incorporation strategy and matrix viscosity on filler dispersion and electrical resistivity
    (Basel : MDPI, 2019) Pötschke, Petra; Mothes, Fanny; Krause, Beate; Voit, Brigitte
    Small-scale melt mixing was performed for composites based on polypropylene (PP) and 0.5–7.5 wt % multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) to determine if masterbatch (MB) dilution is a more effective form of nanofiller dispersion than direct nanotube incorporation. The methods were compared using composites of five different PP types, each filled with 2 wt % MWCNTs. After the determination of the specific mechanical energy (SME) input in the MB dilution process, the direct-incorporation mixing time was adjusted to achieve comparable SME values. Interestingly, the electrical resistivity of MB-prepared samples with 2 wt % MWCNTs was higher than that of those prepared using direct incorporation—despite their better dispersion—suggesting more pronounced MWCNT shortening in the two-step procedure. In summary, this study on PP suggests that the masterbatch approach is suitable for the dispersion of MWCNTs and holds advantages in nanotube dispersion, albeit at the cost of slightly increased electrical resistivity.