Strengthening of polymer ropes based on polypropylene with carbon nanotubes

Abstract

Abstract The issues of using carbon nanotubes as fillers to strengthen polymer ropes used in the mining industry, oil and gas production, metallurgy, power engineering, etc. are considered in the work. The method for producing a nanocomposite based on polypropylene doped with carbon nanotubes has been developed. Experimental studies of the most significant strength characteristics of the created prototypes of polymer composite materials have been carried out. To determine the mechanisms acting upon the introduction of nanotubes into the polymer matrix, DFT calculations of the interaction of propylene monomer with the surface of single-walled nanotubes of different diameters and chirality have been performed.