Studies on the viscoelastic behavior of styrene- [ethylene-(ethylene-propylene)]-styrene block copolymer (SEEPS) were carried out, and some characteristic viscoelas-tic parameters were calculated. The longest relaxation time τmax was obtained through simulating the relaxation spec-trum on the basis of a modified Baumgaertel-Schausberger- Winter (mBSW) model. The results revealed that there exists a “second plateau” in the low frequency region of the master curves. The reason for this phenomenon is attributed to the entanglement of macromolecular chains. It is suggested that the hard blocks, polystyrene, act as entanglement points, resulting in a topology restraint to the movement of macro-molecular chains. Meanwhile, it is found that the horizontal shift factors (aT) vs temperature in the master curve could be fitted to the Williams-Landel-Ferry (WLF) equation and Ar-rhenius equation respectively and the flow activation energy (Ea) is 127.88 kJ/mol. In addition, the plateau modulus (GN0) and entanglement molecule weight (Me) were calculated.
Conductive properties of multiwalled carbon nanotubes(MWNTs) filled high-density polyethylene(HDPE) composites prepared by melt blending were studied. The results showed that as the MWNTs concents reach to 3%(mass fraction), the electrical conductivity of the composites changes from insulator to semiconductor, possessing resistivtiy of 10 10 Ω·cm. While as the MWNTs concents reach to 5%, the composites become a good conductor. The resistivity-temperature characteristic of the composites exhibits that with the increasing of the temperature, the resistivity of the composites first decreases, while increases abruptly when the temperature approaches melting point(t_m) of the matrix, indicating an existence of the negative temperature coefficient(NTC)-positive temperature coefficient(PTC) effect. It should be noted that this phenomenon can not be found in polymer-based composites filled with other conductive particles, such as carbon black, graphite, carbon fiber.
Dynamic rheological properties of poly(methyl vinyl)siloxane(PMVS) filled with ultratra silica (SiO 2) were analyzed on an advanced rheometric expansion system(ARES) at 25 ℃ by varying the strain (γ) and the frequency (ω). The results show that an incorporation of 5% SiO 2 into PMVS at 25 ℃ could be enough to impact a significant increase on the storage modulus (G′) of the uncured system, which is believed to be caused by the strong interactions among silica fillers. Meanwhile, γ dependence of G′ related to Payne effect was observed upon increasing γ amplitude, and no distinct “second plateau” was observed even the content of SiO 2 approached 20%. We owe this phenomenon partly to the surface esterification of silanols and partly to the unvulcanized PMVS.
