Dynamic mechanical properties of oil palm nano filler/kenaf/epoxy hybrid nanocomposites

Published Date

15 October 2016, Vol.124:133–138, doi:10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2016.07.059

Title 

Dynamic mechanical properties of oil palm nano filler/kenaf/epoxy hybrid nanocomposites

• Author 

• N. Saba ^a,,
• M.T. Paridah ^a
• K. Abdan ^b
• N.A. Ibrahim ^c

• aLaboratory of Biocomposite Technology, Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products (INTROP), Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
• bDepartment of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
• cDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Received 3 June 2016. Revised 22 June 2016. Accepted 15 July 2016. Available online 25 July 2016.

Highlights

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  Effect of oil palm nano filler on DMA of epoxy hybrid nanocomposites were made.
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  Tg and shapes of cole-cole plot of kenaf/epoxy and hybrid nanocomposites evaluated.
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  Comparative DMA study of oil palm nano filler, MMT and OMMT hybrid nanocomposites.
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  Considerable improvement in dynamic properties observed for nano OPEFB hybrid.

Abstract

Epoxy based hybrid nanocomposites was prepared by dispersing the different nano fillers -nano oil palm empty fruit bunch (OPEFB) filler, MMT, and OMMT at 3% loading through high speed mechanical stirrer followed by hand lay-up technique. Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA), in terms of storage modulus (E′), loss modulus (E″), Tan delta (δ) and glass transition temperature (Tg) as a function of temperature were carried out. Overall results indicated that E′, E″ and Tg increased considerably by incorporating nano OPEFB filler, MMT and OMMT nanoclay into the kenaf/epoxy composites. Nano OPEFB/kenaf/epoxy hybrid nanocomposites displayed comparable properties to MMT/kenaf/epoxy but less than OMMT/kenaf/epoxy hybrid nanocomposites.

Keywords

• Epoxy
• Oil palm nano filler
• Kenaf fibers
• Nanoclay
• Dynamic mechanical properties
• Glass transition temperature

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