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The effect of the addition of polypropylene-grafted SiO2 nanoparticle on the thermal conductivity of isotactic polypropylene

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The thermal conductivity of Isotactic polypropylene (iPP)/silica particle (SiO2, 26 nm) nanocomposite has been investigated. The untreated SiO2 and iPP grafted onto SiO2 were dispersed in the iPP (M w = 2.5 × 105) matrix. The molecular mass of the iPP-grafted chain, M n, was precisely controlled to be 5.8 × 103, 1.2 × 104, and 4.6 × 104. It was found that the thermal conductivities of graft-treated nanocomposites were higher than that of untreated SiO2 composites. This implied that it is possible to achieve even higher thermal conductivity using the graft treatment. A thermal conductivity analysis conducted using a three-phase model, with considerations for thermal conductivity at interfacial layers, showed that the thermal conductivity of the interfacial layer increased significantly when a graft chain was incorporated. Moreover, the thermal conductivity per graft chain was proportional to the 1/2 power of the molecular mass (\( M_{\text{n}}^{0.5} \)). The results strongly suggest that the thermal conductivity pathway of interfacial layer was the main chain direction of iPP-grafted molecular chains.

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The synchrotron radiation experiments were performed at the BL40B2 of SPring-8 with the approval of the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI) (Proposal No. 2013A1343).

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  1. Sawafuji Electric Co., Ltd, 3 Nittahayakawa-cho, Ota, Gunma, 370-0344, Japan

    Yoshizo Fukuyama

  2. Department of Production Science and Technology, Graduate School of Engineering, Gunma University, 29-1 Honcho, Ota, Gunma, 373-0057, Japan

    Yoshizo Fukuyama, Mari Senda, Takahiko Kawai & Shin-ichi Kuroda

  3. School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa, 923-1211, Japan

    Masahito Toyonaga, Toshiaki Taniike & Minoru Terano

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Fukuyama, Y., Senda, M., Kawai, T. et al. The effect of the addition of polypropylene-grafted SiO2 nanoparticle on the thermal conductivity of isotactic polypropylene. J Therm Anal Calorim 117, 1397–1405 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-014-3881-5

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