Surface modification of calcium carbonate nanofillers by fluoro- and alkyl-alkoxysilane: Consequences on the morphology, thermal stability and gas barrier properties of polyvinylidene fluoride nanocomposites - Archive ouverte HAL
Article Dans Une Revue European Polymer Journal Année : 2012

Surface modification of calcium carbonate nanofillers by fluoro- and alkyl-alkoxysilane: Consequences on the morphology, thermal stability and gas barrier properties of polyvinylidene fluoride nanocomposites

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Nano-sized precipitated silica coated calcium carbonate fillers (PCC-Si) were modified by an alkyl- and a fluoro-alkoxysilane derivative, respectively. PCC-Si surface modification was characterized by elemental analysis, Fourier transform infrared analysis and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The modification conditions used for surface treatment led to a similar grafting density (around 3.2 mu mol m(-2)) for the two alkoxysilane derivatives. A significant decrease of filler hydrophilicity was observed after the alkoxysilane treatment. Nanocomposites prepared by melt mixing the modified fillers (10 wt.%) with polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) depicted no color change, an enhanced filler dispersion state with an homogeneous dispersion of very small filler aggregates (less than 150 nm diameter size), an increase of the thermal stability at high temperature and no change of the PVDF crystalline morphology. The oxygen permeability decrease measured on the nanocomposite prepared from the perfluorooctyltriethoxysilane modified filler was in good agreement with Maxwell law. The permeability increase evidenced for the nanocomposite based on the octyltriethoxysilane modified PCC suggested the formation of weak interfaces in this system.

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hal-00709699 , version 1 (19-06-2012)

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Floriane Morel, Véronique Bounor-Legaré, Eliane Espuche, Olivia Persyn, Marc Lacroix. Surface modification of calcium carbonate nanofillers by fluoro- and alkyl-alkoxysilane: Consequences on the morphology, thermal stability and gas barrier properties of polyvinylidene fluoride nanocomposites. European Polymer Journal, 2012, 48, pp.919-929. ⟨10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2012.03.004⟩. ⟨hal-00709699⟩

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