Effect of Multilayer Carbon Nanotubes on Mechanical Properties and Phase Transformations of UltraHighMolecularWeight Polyethylene during Drawingстатья
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Аннотация:Nanocomposite materials on the basis of ultrahighmolecularweight polyethylene and multi
layer carbon nanotubes (MCNTs), the concentration of which varied from 0.1 to 1 wt %, were prepared by combined deposition from solution. The presence of carbon nanotubes in the polymer matrix leads to structural changes strongly affecting the physical properties of composites. The interrelation between the macroscopic behavior under deformation and the microstructure of the composite was studied in situ by Xray structural analysis with the application of synchrotron radiation. The results indicate that the martensite transformation of the orthorhombic phase of ultrahighmolecularweight polyethylene into the monoclinic one induced by the deformation and the relative content of the metastable phase are determined by the presence of carbon nanotubes.