Nucleating Effect of Carbon Nanoparticles and Their Influence on the Thermal and Chemical Stability of Polypropylene

Table 1

Temperatures at which there was a 10 and 50 wt% loss, due to chemical decomposition, in PP samples collected after immersion in nitric acid for 0 and 8 hours.

		𝑇 (°C) at; 10 wt% loss	𝑇 (°C) at; 50 wt% loss
0 hours in nitric acid	PP-Pure	263	293
	PP-LiBe	268	304
	PP-CNFs	272	312
	PP-CNTs	277	320
After 8 hours in nitric acid	PP-Pure	303	365
	PP-LiBe	316	379
	PP-CNFs	319	381
	PP-CNTs	321	387