Investigative Study of Structural morphology of Polypropylene and BaCo3 – Nanoparticle Composites

The aim of the present study is to introduce nano particle BaCo3 (NPBC) in isotactic polypropylene (ipp) with filler contents percentages of 1%, 3%, 5% &10% wt. respectively and to verify the effect of nanoparticle BaCo3 on morphological properties of injection molded iPP. Melt mixing technique is used for the fabrication of nano particle composites, where Baco3 nanoparticle powder is mixed with PP and heated at a temperature of 200c for 15 minutes and dried. The solidified products were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) for structural conformation. It has been concluded that with an increase in the filler loadings, the width of a strong peak of PP i.e.; (221) decreased up to 5% weight of PP then after it increased, which results in increase of the percentage of crystallinity of the nanocomposite up to 5% weight of the filler loadings after that the decrement is due to the agglomeration of BaCo3 nano particles in the host PP matrix.