PMID- 32182958
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20200928
IS  - 1996-1944 (Print)
IS  - 1996-1944 (Electronic)
IS  - 1996-1944 (Linking)
VI  - 13
IP  - 5
DP  - 2020 Mar 9
TI  - Mechanical, Thermal and Rheological Properties of Polyethylene-Based Composites 
      Filled with Micrometric Aluminum Powder.
LID - 10.3390/ma13051242 [doi]
LID - 1242
AB  - Investigations related to polymer/metal composites are often limited to the 
      analysis of the electrical and thermal conductivity of the materials. The 
      presented study aims to analyze the impact of aluminum (Al) filler content (from 
      1 to 20 wt%) on the rarely investigated properties of composites based on the 
      high-density polyethylene (HDPE) matrix. The crystalline structure, rheological 
      (melt flow index and oscillatory rheometry), thermal (differential scanning 
      calorimetry), as well as static (tensile tests, hardness, rebound resilience) and 
      dynamic (dynamical mechanical analysis) mechanical properties of composites were 
      investigated. The incorporation of 1 and 2 wt% of aluminum filler resulted in 
      small enhancements of mechanical properties, while loadings of 5 and 10 wt% 
      provided materials with a similar performance to neat HDPE. Such results were 
      supported by the lack of disturbances in the rheological behavior of composites. 
      The presented results indicate that a significant content of aluminum filler may 
      be introduced into the HDPE matrix without additional pre-treatment and does not 
      cause the deterioration of composites' performance, which should be considered 
      beneficial when engineering PE/metal composites.
FAU - Mysiukiewicz, Olga
AU  - Mysiukiewicz O
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4273-9869
AD  - Institute of Materials Technology, Poznan University of Technology, Piotrowo 3, 
      61-138 Poznan, Poland.
FAU - Kosmela, Paulina
AU  - Kosmela P
AD  - Department of Polymer Technology, Gdansk University of Technology, Narutowicza 
      11/12, 80-233 Gdansk, Poland.
FAU - Barczewski, Mateusz
AU  - Barczewski M
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-1451-6430
AD  - Institute of Materials Technology, Poznan University of Technology, Piotrowo 3, 
      61-138 Poznan, Poland.
FAU - Hejna, Aleksander
AU  - Hejna A
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9125-6164
AD  - Department of Polymer Technology, Gdansk University of Technology, Narutowicza 
      11/12, 80-233 Gdansk, Poland.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20200309
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Materials (Basel)
JT  - Materials (Basel, Switzerland)
JID - 101555929
PMC - PMC7085091
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - aluminum
OT  - composite
OT  - crystallization
OT  - linear low-density polyethylene
OT  - mechanical properties
OT  - particle-shaped filler
OT  - rheology
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2020/03/19 06:00
MHDA- 2020/03/19 06:01
PMCR- 2020/03/09
CRDT- 2020/03/19 06:00
PHST- 2020/02/18 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/03/03 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2020/03/05 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/03/19 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2020/03/19 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2020/03/19 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2020/03/09 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - ma13051242 [pii]
AID - materials-13-01242 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/ma13051242 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Materials (Basel). 2020 Mar 9;13(5):1242. doi: 10.3390/ma13051242.