Relaxation behavior and activation energy of relaxation for polyimide and polyimide–graphene nanocomposite

Abstract

The relaxation behavior of polyimide and its nanocomposite containing 10 wt % of graphene was studied by using the dynamic mechanical spectrometer. Dynamic mechanical analysis of polyimide and its composite was performed as a function of temperature and frequency in the temperature range of 25-480 8C and frequency range between 0.05 and 100 Hz. The effect of increasing frequency of testing from 0.05 to 100 Hz is a significant shift from the glass transition temperature, T g , to higher temperature from 360 8C at 0.05 Hz to 420 8C at 100 Hz. The tan d peak height for both a and b transitions decreased with increasing test frequency from 0.24 at 0.05 Hz to 0.08 at 100 Hz, due to increasing restriction to chain motion. At any given testing frequency, the T g for the composite was shown to be higher than that for the matrix by about 5-10 8C. The Arrhenius equation was used to calculate the activation energy for both a and b transitions. The activation for a and b transitions for the composite and polyimide matrix were determined to be 688 and 537 kJ/mol and 313 and 309 kJ/mol, respectively, indicating that a significant increase in the energy barrier to chain relaxation occurred as a result of reinforcement of polyimide with low weight fraction of graphene. V C 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2016, 133, 43684.

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