INFLUENCE OF FULLERENE ON THE RHEOLOGICAL
CHARACTERISTICS OF MELTS OF THE POLYAMIDE
COMPOSITE FORMING THE STRUCTURE
OF A SEMI-INTERPENETRATIVE POLYMER MESH

T. A. Kostereva, Yu. N. Panov, V. N. Artem'eva,
N. V. Kukarkina, N. A. Nikanorova, and V. V. Kudryavtsev

UDC 532.135+678.766.44.5

The time change in the melt viscosity of the polyamide 
composite forming at the final stage a polymer with the structure 
of a semi-interpenetrative polymer mesh has been investigated. To 
impregnate with the composite melt the carbon fiber for forming 
carbon-filled plastics, it is necessary to preserve the low 
viscosity of the melt for a long time. This is achieved by 
preliminary heat treatment of the composite and introduction 
of fullerene into it.

Institute of High-Molecular Compounds, Russian Academy 
of Sciences, 31 Bol'shoi prospekt V. O., St. Petersburg, 199004; email: 
koster@hq.macro.ru. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, 
Vol. 78, No. 5, pp. 109-113, September-October, 2005. Original 
article submitted November 17, 2004.