Abstract
A comparison of two techniques, ultrasonication and the controlled wave treatment, for the dispersion of ultra-small concentrations of carbon nanotubes in epoxy resin has been carried out with specially designed instruments. Studies with optical microscopy and physicomechanical and thermomechanical tests showed that both techniques provide almost equal degrees of nanotube dispersion in the matrix and dependences of the basic physicomechanical properties of cured epoxy polymers on the nanofiller concentrations. However, the difference between the two techniques has been shown at the study of the structural properties of the cured epoxy polymers (the molecular weight of the internode chains of the polymeric network, and the vitrification temperature), which are more stable in the case of the wave treatment. Thus, wave treatment is a promising dispersion technique, and it is applicable at the industrial scale because it is almost unlimited by the size and capacities of the equipment.
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