Krishnaswamy, SuryanarayananTinsley, LawrenceMarchante, VeronicaAddepalli, SriHuang, ZhaorongAbhyankar, Hrushikesh2017-10-172017-10-172017-10-03Krishnaswamy S, Tinsley L, Marchante V, Addepalli S, Huang Z, Abhyankar H, Effect of extrusion and compression moulding on the thermal properties of nylon-6/silica aerogel composites, Journal of Thermoplastic Composite Materials, Vol 31, Issue 7, 2018, pp992-10090892-7057https://doi.org/10.1177/0892705717729198https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/12646The article presents the effect of a lower extrusion speed and compression moulding processes on the thermal properties of polyamide 6 (PA-6)/aerogel composite. Scanning electron and optical microscope images showed that although most of the aerogel was destroyed during extrusion at 65 r/min, extrusion at 5 r/min showed a better retention of the aerogel structure. However, when subjected to moulding in a compression press, both composites extruded at different speeds suffered significant damage. Nevertheless, the extruded samples did show a lower thermal conductivity compared to the virgin polymer. Further, it was observed that the sample extruded at 5 r/min had a lower damage coefficient value with an overall loss of around 33% to the aerogel structure when compared to the material extruded at 65 r/min, which endured a structural loss of 41% to the aerogel in it.enAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/NylonAerogelExtrusionThermal conductivityCompositesArticle