@article{154619c5592346569a6004e9034fe590,
title = "Mechanical properties and flame retardancy of surface modified magnesium oxysulfate (5Mg(OH)2·MgSO4·3H2O) whisker for polypropylene composites",
abstract = "Magnesium oxysulfate (MOS) whisker is considered as a promising inorganic material recently attracting a great attention for being used as a reinforcing filler for polymer composites due to high aspect ratio and extremely-low bulk density. In this study, the MOS was treated with 3-methacryloyloxypropyl-trimethoxy silane (MPS) via sol-gel condensation reactions, which successfully allowed melt mixing with polypropylene (PP) up to 30 wt% of MOS. The tensile strength at yield and modulus of the MOS/PP composites were substantially increased by 50.8% and 362%, respectively, when compared with the pristine PP. As a novel finding, the flame retardancy of MOS was proved by identifying water evolution at elevated temperatures giving out 9 wt% of water in 250–320 °C and 14 wt% in 350–420 °C in two steps. This work demonstrated that the MOS could be an excellent filler for PP not only increasing the mechanical properties in a great extent but also imposing flame retarding capability.",
keywords = "Flame retardant, Magnesium oxysulfate, Mechanical properties, Surface modification",
author = "Kim, {Eui Su} and Kim, {Ye Chan} and Jungwoo Park and Youngjun Kim and Kim, {Sung Hoon} and Kim, {Kwang Jin} and Jonghwan Suhr and Youngkwan Lee and Lee, {Seong Hoon} and Kim, {Dae Sik} and Kim, {Soo Hyun} and Yun, {Ju Ho} and Park, {In Kyung} and Nam, {Jae Do}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT (NRF-2014M3C1B2048175 and 2016R1A2B1007134), and Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) (10067690). We also appreciated the project and equipment support from Gyeonggi Province through the GRRC program in Sungkyunkwan University. KJK would like to acknowledge this material is based upon work supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IIA-1301726. Funding Information: This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT ( NRF-2014M3C1B2048175 and 2016R1A2B1007134 ), and Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) ( 10067690 ). We also appreciated the project and equipment support from Gyeonggi Province through the GRRC program in Sungkyunkwan University. KJK would like to acknowledge this material is based upon work supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IIA-1301726 . Jae-Do Nam is a Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, and adjunct Professor in Department of Energy in Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea. He earned B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Seoul National University in 1984 and 1986, respectively, and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA in 1991. He was appointed a research associate faculty at the Polymeric Composites Laboratory, University of Washington, from 1991 to 1993. Returning to Korea, he joined Jeil Synthetic Fiber Co., Samsung Group, in 1993–1994, and moved to Sungkyunkwan University in 1994. He served as a department chairman of the Polymer Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University in 1995–1996, 2001–2009, and 2014–2015. Most recently, he was a conference chairman of ISAR 2016 (International Symposium of Applied Rheology) in 2016 and the advisory board member of the 7th PRCR (Pacific Rim Conference on Rheology) in 2018. Dr. Nam is currently the director of a center Eco-Friendly Sustainable Technology for Automobile (Gyeonggi Province, Korea, since 2007), a director of SKKU-Hyundai Automobile Elastomer Research Center (Hyundai Motor Co., since 2015), and co-director of 3D Printing Hive Center (Gyeonggi Province, Korea, since 2015). Dr. Nam was the president of the Korean Rheology Society (KSR) in 2017. His research interests are the areas of thermoplastic/thermoset polymer nanocomposites, electroactive actuators and sensors, polymer/metal/inorganic nanoparticle synthesis, self-assembly structuring, biodegradable nanocomposites, micropackaging polymers/fabrication. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 The Chinese Ceramic Society",
year = "2018",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1016/j.jmat.2018.02.003",
language = "English",
volume = "4",
pages = "149--156",
journal = "Journal of Materiomics",
issn = "2352-8478",
publisher = "Chinese Ceramic Society",
number = "2",
}