Polycarbonate is a transparent commercial
engineering polymer used in many applications especially in mobile protector screen for its good properties.
In the present paper, nano composite material composed of polycarbonate sheet
and nano titanium dioxide particles was prepared. Three ratios of TiO2 (0.01-0.03-0.05 g) were employed with polycarbonate by using pressing technique. Different mechanical, chemical,
thermal and morphology tests were characterized as
hardness, impact, FTIR, UV,XRD, DSC, tensile strength, contact angle and
smoothness test. The results were
shown that the hardness decreased in about 15% and the impact
resistance increased in about 10% with TiO2 level increasing. FTIR showed there were no new peaks appearing and that indicated physical
interactions between the nano filler and the polycarbonate matrix, also
transparency reduced in about 5%. UV showed the absorption of polycarbonate to
radiation after added TiO2. DSC showed decreasing in the Tg level
and increasing in the crystallinity of material after processing. Contact angle
test showed that the wettability increased at first but retained decreasing with adding more TiO2 to the surface. Surface roughness test
and AFM test show decrease in smoothness with adding TiO2 to
polycarbonate sheet.
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