Author:
Evingür Gülşen Akın,Pekcan Önder
Abstract
Abstract
We studied the drying of polyacrylamide (PAAm)-multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWNT) composites, prepared by free radical crosslinking copolymerization in water, with a steady state fluorescence technique. Composite gels were prepared at room temperature with pyranine (Py) doped as a fluorescence probe. Drying experiments were performed in air at various MWNT contents by real time monitoring of the Py fluorescence intensity (I) which increased as the drying proceeded. The Stern-Volmer equation, combined with the moving boundary diffusion model, was used to explain the behavior of I during drying. It was observed that the desorption coefficient (D) increased as the temperature increased. Drying energies (ΔE) were measured for the drying processes for each MWNT content gel, by using fluorescence, gravimetrical and volumetric methods. It is understood that ΔE values decrease by increasing MWNT content, until 1 wt% MWNT, and then increase above the level of this threshold value. The energy of drying is strongly correlated with the MWNT content in the composite. ΔE drops to its lowest value, at which conducting cluster starts to appear.
Subject
Materials Chemistry,Polymers and Plastics,General Chemical Engineering
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