Chinese Journal of Applied Chemistry ›› 2023, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (9): 1267-1276.DOI: 10.19894/j.issn.1000-0518.230139

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Carbon Nanotube Modified Styrene-Acrylonitrile Copolymer/Polyurea Nanocomposite Foams

Man TIAN1,2, Jiang-An YOU1,2, Zhi-Wei JIANG1(), Tao TANG1,2()   

  1. 1.State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry,Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Changchun 130022,China
    2.School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering,University of Science and Technology of China,Hefei 230026,China
  • Received:2023-05-11 Accepted:2023-08-08 Published:2023-09-01 Online:2023-09-14
  • Contact: Zhi-Wei JIANG,Tao TANG
  • About author:ttang@ciac.ac.cn
    jiangzw@ciac.ac.cn
  • Supported by:
    the National Natural Science Foundation of China(5233004)

Abstract:

Polymer nanocomposite foams often exhibit better comprehensive properties than conventional foams due to the presence of nanofillers. In order to prepare multifunctional nanocomposite foams with excellent comprehensive properties, styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer (SAN)/polyurea (PUA) nanocomposite foams with different mass fractions of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) are prepared by combining the “Plasticizing-Foaming-Reinforcing” (PFR) strategy with adding MWCNTs. The effects of MWCNTs on the properties of SAN/crosslinked monomer (CMs) blends and SAN/PUA nanocomposite foams are investigated. It is found that the addition of MWCNTs still retains the advantage of CMs plasticization, so that SAN/CMs blends have a lower glass transition temperature than pure SAN, and the presence of MWCNTs can significantly reduce the cell diameter of SAN/PUA composite foam. After curing, the SAN/PUA nanocomposite foam with MWCNTs has better heat resistance (128.1~139.3 ℃) than pure SAN foam (116.4 ℃), and the modulus of the foam increases with the mass fraction of MWCNTs. At the same time, with the increase of MWCNTs mass fraction, the conductivity and electromagnetic shielding performance of SAN/PUA nanocomposite foam become better. When the mass fraction of MWCNTs is 15%, the electromagnetic shielding performance of SAN/PUA nanocomposite foam reaches 30.7 dB. In addition, with the increase of MWCNTs mass fraction, the electromagnetic shielding ability of the foam changes from the absorption mode to the reflection mode.

Key words: Styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer, Multi-walled carbon nanotubes, Supercritical CO2 foaming, Nanocomposite foam, Electromagnetic shielding

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