Synthesis and Characterization of Electroconductive PHA-graft-Graphene Nanocomposites

With increasing demand of environmentally friendly materials, development on biobased polymers such as polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) is indispensable. An unsaturated PHA, namely, poly(3-hydroxydodecanoate- co-3-hydroxy-9-decenoate), short as P(3HDD- co-3H9D), provides possibilities for functionalization. Two different strategies are explored for synthesis of PHA- graft-graphene nanocomposites with graphene content ranging from 0.2 to 1.5 wt %....