Abstract:
Nanoparticles Fe
3O
4 were synthesized with co-precipitation method and coated on the surface of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) to prepare the magnetic Fe
3O
4-MWCNTs hybrid. The magnetic Fe
3O
4-MWCNTs hybrid was aligned in the epoxy resin under weak magnetic field (0.6 T). Alignment and dispersion of Fe
3O
4-MWCNTs were studied by transmission electron microscope (TEM). Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and thermal conductivity were tested. As a result, nanoparticles Fe
3O
4 are coated on the surface of MWCNTs, hybrids are aligned end-to-up under 0.6 T magnetic field. Thermal conductivity is anisotropy, with lower thermal conductivity in vertical direction, while Fe
3O
4-MWCNTs hybrid has little effect on the parallel thermal conductivity. With adding Fe
3O
4-MWCNTs hybrid into epoxy resin, storage modulus decreases and loss modulus increases. In the meantime, loss factors of nano Fe
3O
4-MWCNTs/epoxy composites are higher than those of the pure epoxy resin exihibiting good damping property. When the mass ratio of Fe
3O
4-MWCNTs hybrid to epxy resin is 0.3%, loss factor is more than 0.7 and up to 1.16 at about 20 ℃.