Scaling of the viscoelasticity of highly filled carbon black polyethylene composites above the melting point |
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Authors: | Karl-Michael Jä ger,Svein Staal Eggen |
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Affiliation: | a Borealis AB, Marketing and Development Centre Wire and Cable, 444 86 Stenungsund, Sweden b Borealis A/S, Polyolefin Research, 3960 Stathelle, Norway |
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Abstract: | Different types of linear low-density polyethylene and ethylene butylacrylate copolymers were mixed with various types of carbon black in amounts between 25 and 40% by weight. Viscoelastic properties were measured using dynamic mechanical analysis applying a frequency sweep. Typically, the complex modulus approaches asymptotically a constant value at small frequencies, which is referred to as ‘yield modulus’. These results were analysed using a scaling approach according to which the complex modulus and the frequency are normalised by the yield modulus and the quotient of the yield modulus and the polymer viscosity, respectively. Thus a master curve is achieved for nearly all samples independent of the polymer and carbon black type and loading. A similar scaling behaviour has been observed earlier for differently concentrated suspensions of carbon black in Newtonian liquids, but not for filled polymers and different carbon blacks. Thus, contributions from polymer and carbon black to the compounds' viscoelastic properties are discussed. |
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Keywords: | Polymer Carbon black Rheology |
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