Temperature Profile of Microencapsulation for Self-Healing Application

Article Preview

Abstract:

Healing agents significantly affect the efficiency of healing microcracks, which produced from life-time service in composites. And microencapsulating 5-ethylidene-2-norbornene (ENB) with Melamine-Urea-Formaldehyde (MUF) shell possessing higher self-healing efficiency is sensitive to the manufacture temperature profile which is difficult to control but crucial to the microcapsule performance and thus the reproducibility. In this paper, we studied the relationship between heating curve (rate, steps and time) and microcapsule performance (surface morphology, thermal stability and shell thickness). It shows that fast-slower heating stage produces the best quality of microcapsule with proper outer and inner surface which can endure 285°C, and the particle size is about 100m with 400-700nm shell thickness.

You might also be interested in these eBooks

Info:

Periodical:

Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 143-144)

Pages:

353-357

Citation:

Online since:

October 2010

Export:

Price:

Permissions CCC:

Permissions PLS:

Сopyright:

© 2011 Trans Tech Publications Ltd. All Rights Reserved

Share:

Citation:

[1] S.R. White, N.R. Sottos, P.H. Geubelle, J.S. Moore, M.R. Kessler, S.R. Siriram, E.N. Brown, S. Virswanathan: NatureVol. 409(2001), p.794.

Google Scholar

[2] L. Yuan, G.Z. Liang, J.Q. Xie, L. Li, J. Guo: PolymerVol. 47(2006), p.5338.

Google Scholar

[3] J. Yang, M.W. Keller, J.S. Moore, S.R. White, N.R. Sottos: Macromol. Vol. 96(2008), p.965.

Google Scholar

[4] B.J. Blaiszik, N.R. Sottos, S.R. White: Composites Sci. Tech. Vol. 68(2008), p.978.

Google Scholar

[5] X. Liu, X. Sheng, J.K. Lee, M.R. Kessler: Macromol. Mater. Eng. Vol. 294(2009), p.389.

Google Scholar