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Verho, Tuukka
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- 2025A skeletonization-based approach for individual fiber separation in tomography images of biocomposites
- 2023Vibrations of Thin Bio Composite Plates
- 2022Biocomposite modeling by tomographic feature extraction and synthetic microstructure reconstructioncitations
- 2021Micromechanical performance of high-density polyethylene:experimental and modeling approaches for HDPE and its alumina-nanocompositescitations
- 2021Micromechanical performance of high-density polyethylenecitations
- 2019Matrix morphology and the particle dispersion in HDPE nanocomposites with enhanced wear resistancecitations
- 2018Crystal Growth in Polyethylene by Molecular Dynamics:The Crystal Edge and Lamellar Thicknesscitations
- 2018Crystal Growth in Polyethylene by Molecular Dynamicscitations
- 2018Imaging Inelastic Fracture Processes in Biomimetic Nanocomposites and Nacre by Laser Speckle for Better Toughnesscitations
- 2017Toughness and Flaw Tolerance by Biologically Inspired Approaches ; Sitkeitä rakennemateriaaleja luontoa jäljitellencitations
- 2017Micromechanical modeling of failure behavior of metallic materialscitations
- 2017Toughness and Fracture Properties in Nacre-Mimetic Clay/Polymer Nanocompositescitations
- 2015Fabrication of graphene-based 3D structures by stereolithographycitations
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Matrix morphology and the particle dispersion in HDPE nanocomposites with enhanced wear resistance
Abstract
High density polyethylene nanocomposites were prepared by melt mixing of varying type of nanopowders in the presence of vinyltrimethoxysilane (VTMS) coupling agent. Three spherical/irregular-shaped nanopowders, fumed Al2O3, γ-Al2O3, cubic titanium nitride (TiN) (1.5 vol-%), and high aspect ratio graphene oxide platelets (GO) (0.5 vol-%) were investigated in a high molecular weight HDPE matrix. Significant differences in the dispersion quality between the nanopowders were found by TEM and AFM. Degree of crystallinity of the nanocomposites (DSC/XRD) was consistently lower than in the neat HDPE polymer. The particularly well dispersed fumed Al2O3, γ-Al2O3 and GO nanopowders induced significant modification on the micromechanical properties of the HDPE. For the first time, great enhancement in the sliding wear performance, and an improvement in the abrasive wear performance was found in the high molecular weight HDPE nanocomposites. DSC analyses showed elevations in the glass transition temperatures and the peak melting temperatures of the nanocomposites. XRD peak splitting in the HDPE + GO and the HDPE + γ-Al2O3 nanocomposites suggest the emergence of a concurrent orthorhombic HDPE phase. Formation of new phases was also supported by DSC analyses showing broad and multimodal melting peaks. Scherrer analyses of XRD data showed slightly increased HDPE crystalline thicknesses in the range of 15–20 nm in the nanocomposites, which was in line with the TEM and AFM observations. The great elevation in the melting temperatures of the HDPE nanocomposites with fumed Al2O3 and γ-Al2O3 could not be attributed to the polymer lamellar thickness, but rather to the altered properties of the solid amorphous phase stemming for the nanopowder additives. ; Peer reviewed