Polymer nanocomposites with PMMA matrix

This bachelor thesis deals with s study of mechanical and viscoelastic properties of nanocomposites with PMMA matrix filled with different types of surface-modified silica, which differed by the specific surface area, surface treatment and particle size. Nanocomposites were prepared by dissolving, where nanofillers were injected into the dissolved matrix. Nanocomposite samples were tested in tensil and viscoelastic properties were determined till the softening point by dynamic-mechanical analysis (DMA). All types of nanofillers had almost no effect on tensile modulus of nanocomposites at room temperature (it was not reduced) one type of silica at a content 2 %, which was also confirmed by the DMA. The temperature DMA measurements showed that samples containing 2 % of silica were generally thermally more stable compared with nanocomposites containing 1 % of silica. Storage modulus of nanocomposites, except two ones, were similar or lower such pure PMMA to temperature 66 C, then the trend reversed. Loss modulus of all samples was one order of magnitude lower then the elastic modulus