Muscovite thermal expansion

Symmes GH (1986) The thermal expansion of natural muscovite, paragonite, margarite, pyrophylhte, phlogopite, and two chlorites The significance of high T/P volume studies on calculated phase equilibria. B.A. thesis, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts. 

In nanoparticle-polymer composites, thermal stability is one of the most important property enhancements. Recently, some theoretical efforts have been made to predict the thermal stability of such composites. For example, FEM and the theory of Chow have been used to predict the thermal expansion of clay-polymer nanocomposites. The results indicate that it is possible to considerably reduce and eventually match the thermal expansion of metal and polymer parts by dispersing a small amount of exfoliated muscovite mica platelets into a polymer matrix. Moreover, reduction is controlled by the product of aspect ratio and volume fraction of the platelets. 

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