Research Article
Reactive Extrusion of Polyethylene Terephthalate Waste and Investigation of Its Thermal and Mechanical Properties after Treatment
Table 3
Nanoindentation results of all samples.
| | Sample | PET | PET + 0.4 g EG | PET + 0.6 g EG | PET + 1 g
EG | PET + 1.4 g EG | PET + 2 g EG |
| | Maximum depth (nm) | 1043.03 | 1169.08 | 1221.94 | 1235.42 | 1296.2 | 1546.05 | | Hardness (GPa) | 0.57571 | 0.41722 | 0.39487 | 0.38957 | 0.35241 | 0.23520 | | Reduced modulus (GPa) | 8.13187 | 7.70008 | 6.66154 | 6.35526 | 5.92548 | 5.23871 | | Elastic modulus (GPa) | 7.185 | 6.802 | 5.879 | 5.607 | 5.226 | 4.618 |
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