Optical Studies of Titania Nanoparticle filled PET/PS Blends

Harshita Agrawal¹ , Kamlendra Awasthi² , Vibhav K. Saraswat³

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Isroset-Conference
Vol.3 , Issue.1 , pp.6-8, Jan-2015

Online published on Feb 28, 2015

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Abstract :
The present work reports the synthesis and optical studies of TiO2 nanoparticles filled PET/PS blends. TiO2 nanoparticles have been synthesized by simple chemical method and PET/PS blends have been prepared using solution casting method. The shape and size of titania nanoparticles have been determined with the help of Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) which found to be 16 nm. The optical studies of PET/PS blends have been carried out using UV-Vis spectroscopy. When calculated the band gap of blends from absorption spectra, the decrement in band gap has been found with increasing the TiO2 filler content in PET/PS blends.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Bandgap, TEM, Polymer Blends etc

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