Mat Yusof, Nur Nadia and Othman, Norhayani and Samsudin, Sani Amril (2015) The effect of halloysite and boron nitride as nucleating agents on the crystallization of poly (3- hydroxybutyrate). In: Malaysia Polymer International Conference (MPIC2015), 10-11 June, 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Abstract
The crystallization behaviour of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) induced by two kinds of nucleating agents which are Boron Nitride (BN) and Halloysite nanotubes (HNT) was investigated using Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC). PHB composites with 2, 4, 6, 8 wt% of BN and HNT were prepared by melt mixing. Presence of 8wt% BN in PHB significantly enhanced the melting temperature (Tm) and also accelerates the crystallization temperature (Tc) of PHB. Meanwhile, addition of more than 2wt% of HNT reduced the Tc thus crystallization of PHB/HNT composites. Even, the crystallization of composites with 8wt% HNT is slower than 8wt% BN but still faster than pure PHB. The degree of crystallinity (Xc) also was calculated from the DSC results.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | halloysite nanotubes (HNT), crystallization |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TP Chemical technology |
| Divisions: | Chemical Engineering |
| ID Code: | 63458 |
| Deposited By: | Fazli Masari |
| Deposited On: | 30 May 2017 04:43 |
| Last Modified: | 30 May 2017 04:43 |
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