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JOURNAL OF SOL-GEL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 57, Issue 1, Pages 86-94Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s10971-010-2327-1
Keywords
Titanium n-butoxide; Hydrolysis-condensation reactions; Reactive extrusion; In situ synthesis; Non-polar medium; Polypropylene
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Study of hydrolysis-condensation reactions of titanium n-butoxide precursor into an unusual medium and non-classical conditions was carried out. Kinetic data were reached in a temperature range of 130-250A degrees C from FTIR, TGA-GC-MS and rheological techniques. These results were obtained into an alkane dispersing medium, (Squalane: 2,6,10,15,19,23-hexamethyltetracosane), and compared to the ones determined from the hydrolysis-condensation reactions of the titanium dioxide precursor carried in molten polypropylene (PP) during extrusion process. The transposition of these knowledge to the in situ synthesis of titanium dioxide in molten PP matrix by reactive extrusion lead to the formation of a fine dispersion of few nanometer diameter (similar to 5 nm) of TiO2 particles. Finally, the viscoelastic behaviour of the nanocomposite has been strongly altered in the terminal relaxation zone as permanent secondary plateau (solid-like behavior), attributed to some fractal arrangement of the inorganic domains was observed.
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