Ultrasound assisted synthesis of polylimonene and organomodified-clay nanocomposites: A structural, morphological and thermal properties

• Autor(a) principal: Derdar, Hodhaifa
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Mitchell, Geoffrey Robert, Cherifi, Zakaria, Belbachir, Mohammed, Benachour, Mohamed, Meghabar, Rachid, Bachari, Khaldoun, Harrane, Amine
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/8417
• topic: Ultrasound; Polylimonene; Nanocomposites; Organo-modified clay; Polymer/clay

Polylimonene-clay nanocomposites (PLM-Mag 2, 3, 6 and 10% by weight of clay) were prepared by mix-ing Maghnite-CTA+ (Mag-CTA+) and polylimonene (PLM) in solution using ultrasonic irradiation. The catalyst preparation method were studied in order to determine and evaluate their structural, morpho-logical and thermal properties. The Mag-CTA+ is an organophylic montmorillonite silicate clay pre-pared through a direct exchange process, using green natural clay of Maghnia (west of Algeria) called Maghnite. The Algerian clay was modified by ultrasonic-assisted method using cetyltrime-thylammonuim bromide (CTAB) in which they used as green nano-reinforcing filler. Polylimonene was obtained by the polymerization of limonene, using Mag-H+ as a catalyst. The morphology of the ob-tained nanocomposites was studied by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electronic microscopy (SEM), transmission electronic microscopy (TEM) and infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). Thermogravimetric anal-ysis (TGA) shows that the nanocomposites have a high degradation temperature (200−250 °C) com-pared with the pure polylimonene (140 °C). The analyses confirmed the chemical modification of mont-morillonite layers and their uniformly dispersion in the polylimonene matrix. Exfoliated structures were obtained for low amounts of clay (2 and 3% by weight), while intercalated structures and immisci-ble regions were detected for high amounts of clay (6 and 10% by weight).