Please suggest best solvent and surfactant for dispersion of ZnO in epoxy
Recently I have used DMF but on curing the composite bubbles were entrapped in it.
Maybe try acetone.
Rather than changing the solvent have you tried sonicating? You could also experiment with different ratios of the solvent and epoxy?
Further to this, functionalisation:
Zhang et al., "Transparent functionalised zinc oxide/epoxy nanocomposite with high thermal performance for high-power light-emitting diodes."
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6507891&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D6507891
Hope this helps.
If dispersion by solvent is not giving what you desire, can you try electrochemical or electrostatic methods of separation?
These I believe give better results
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