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Chitosan Grafted Carbon Nanotubes Reinforced Vinyl Ester/UPE Blend Based Partially Bio-Nanocomposite

https://doi.org/10.14233/ajchem.2019.22017
Priyabrata Mohanty
Department of Chemistry, School of Applied Sciences, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar-751024, India
Tapan Kumar Bastia
Department of Chemistry, School of Applied Sciences, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar-751024, India
Dibakar Behera
Department of Chemistry, School of Applied Sciences, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar-751024, India
Shivkumari Panda
Department of Chemistry, Udayanath Autonomous College of Science and Technology, Cuttack-754001, India

Corresponding Author(s) : Tapan Kumar Bastia

drtkbastia@gmail.com

Asian Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 31 No. 9 (2019): Vol 31 Issue 9

Abstract

This work represents the preparation and characterization of some unique properties of vinyl ester (VE) and unsaturated polyester (UPE) blend based nanocomposites by introducing biopolymer chitosan grafted multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs). Initially, surface grafting of MWCNTs with chitosan was performed by utilizing glutaraldehyde as a cross linking reagent through covalent deposition method and are successfully characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and scanning electron microscopy(SEM). Then 50:50 wt % of vinyl ester and unsaturated polyester blend was prepared by simple sonication method. Three different specimens of VE/UPE/CS-g-MWCNTs nanocomposites were fabricated with addition of 1, 3 and 5 wt % of functionalized bionanofiller. Chitosan grafting of MWCNTs offered enhanced properties to the nanocomposites suggesting homogeneous distribution of the nanofiller in the matrix with minimum corrosion and swelling properties. 3 wt % of functionalized bionanofiller loading showed superior essential characteristics and after that the properties reduced may be due to the nucleating tendency of the nanofiller particles.

Keywords

Unsaturated polyester matrix Vinyl ester Blend based nanocomposite Biopolymer chitosan grafted MWCNTs
Mohanty, P., Bastia, T. K., Behera, D., & Panda, S. (2019). Chitosan Grafted Carbon Nanotubes Reinforced Vinyl Ester/UPE Blend Based Partially Bio-Nanocomposite. Asian Journal of Chemistry, 31(9), 1943–1948. https://doi.org/10.14233/ajchem.2019.22017
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