Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) was carried out using a Simultaneous TGA/differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) analyzer (
TGA/DSC 3+, Mettler Toledo, Greifensee, Switzerland) with temperature scanning from ambient to 800 °C at a heating ramp of 10 °C/min. Besides this, TDT for all samples was defined as the temperature where 50% of weight loss was viewed. Also, the thermal stability of samples was evaluated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC,
TGA/DSC 3+, Mettler Toledo, Switzerland) while flowing N
2 over a range of 25–800 °C and with a heating rate of 10 °C/min. In addition, the thermal conductivity was evaluated by using Thermal Constants Analyzer (TPS-500s, Hot Disk AB Co., Gothenburg, Sweden) at room temperature under 20 mW within 10 s.
The compressive properties measurements were carried out using an electronic universal testing machine (Inspekt table blue 5 kN, Hegewald & Peschke, Nossen, Germany) at a testing speed of 1 mm/min for all samples according to the ASTM D1621-16 standard. The sample size is 40 mm × 20 mm × 16 mm.
All the above tests were performed on at least five samples from each set of measurements.
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