Montmorillonite clay reinforcement polyamides

Varlot, K., Reynaud, E., Kloppfer, M.H., Vigier, G., and Varlet, J. (2001) Clay-reinforced polyamide preferential orientation of the montmorillonite sheets... 

A micromechanics-based model recently proposed by Anoukou et al. [7,8] was adopted in the present investigation to develop a pertinent model for describing the viscoelastic response of polyamide-6-based nanocomposite systems. Comparisons between the results from the micromechanical model and experimental data were considered for nanocomposites reinforced with modified and unmodified montmorillonite clay. Reasonable agreement between theoretical predictions and experimental data was noticed, the discrepancies being attributed to both uncertainties in the input data and a possible effect of reduced chain segment mobility in the vicinity of clay nanoplatelets. 

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