Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
228764 Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry 2010 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

Polyethylene (PE) nanohybrids with polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) functionalized by octamethyl-, octaisobutyl- and octaphenyl-groups were prepared by a melt mixing method. Especially, we present a structure of POSS suitable for the PE system via a theoretical approach, in which a thermodynamic solubility parameter was used to study specific interaction between PE and functionalized POSS. The thermodynamic solubility parameter was calculated by Hoftyzer and van Krevelen method which was developed based on the classical Flory–Huggins theory. Thermal and mechanical properties of the nanohybrids were further analyzed to be correlated with those obtained from the theoretical results.

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