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Obtaining and Preliminary Characterization of Some Polyethylene Composites with Nickel-Silver Ferrite Filler
Summary
Researchers developed composite materials by blending low-density polyethylene (LDPE) with a metallic filler to create plastic composites with improved physical and dielectric properties. While this paper is about plastic material development rather than pollution, understanding how plastic composites behave under environmental conditions is relevant to predicting their fragmentation into microplastics.
Samples of LDPE (low-density polyethylene) and LDPE-PANSA (low-density polyethylene -4-Amino-3-hydroxy- 1-naphthalenesulfonic acid) copolymer with Ag0.5�Ni0.5�Fe2O4 powder (as a filler) composites were developed. Following the preliminary characterizations on the thermooxidability (by thermal analysis techniques), the dielectric behavior (by dielectric spectroscopy technique), the mechanical behavior, etc. it was found that the developed materials do not show significant changes after 240 h exposure to 150 mW / m2 UV. The addition of 3wt% PANSA in LDPE has the effect of increasing the mechanical performance of polymer composites with Ag0.5�Ni0.5�Fe2O4 filler. The addition of 15 wt% ferritic powder leads to significant increases in dielectric losses (by about 100% in the case of pure LDPE and about 185% of the LDPE copolymer with 3 wt% PANSA) and to the increase of the real component of the relative permittivity (by about 34.4 % in LPDE, respectively about 36.4% in LPDE copolymer / 3% wt PANSA). Dielectric behavior of the investigated materials indicates that the effect of Ag0.5�Ni0.5�Fe2O4 powder in LDPE and of copolimer LDPE with 3 wt% PANSA consists in the increasing of the shielding efficiency of electromagnetic waves - the maximum effect being recorded in the case of the composite material with the content: LDPE 84.5 wt%, 2.5 wt% / PANSA and 13% wt% Ag0.5�Ni0.5�Fe2O4.
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