Nanocomposite with clay

Polymer Nanocomposites with Clay and Carbon Nanotubes... 

Ha Ha, S.-R., Rhee, K.-Y., Kim, H.-C., Kim, J.-T. Fracture performance of clay/epoxy nanocomposites with clay surface-modified using 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane. CoUoids and Surfaces A - Physicochemical and Eng. Aspects 313-314 (2008) 112-115. 

Clay-polymer nanocomposites, a new class of hybrids, came into the purview of researchers after their invention by the Toyota research group [7,8]. They found dramatic improvement in tensile properties of polymers by adding clay in small weight fractions. In continuation of this, other researchers have used various techniques to develop polymer nanocomposites with clay as reinforcement after proper organic treatment. 

Polypropylene Nanocomposites with Clay Treated with Thermally Stable Imidazolium Modification... 

As already mentioned, PVA is a water soluble polymer used in applications such as packaging films where water solubility is desired. It is the most readily biodegradable of the vinyl polymers, which makes it a potentially useful material in biomedical, agricultural, and water treatment areas, for example, as a flocculant, or scavenger of metal ions. Moreover, due to its water solubility, PVA can also be used as a model for particle dispersion in aqueous suspensions, especially those from CNWs and some clays. As a consequence, PVA has been largely used to produce nanocomposites with clays, cellulose, and chitin whiskers, silver nanoparticles, graphite oxide, and carbon nanotubes. 

Redhwi, H.H., Siddiqui, M.N., Andrady, A.L., et al. Durability of LDPE nanocomposites with clay, silica, and zinc oxide II. weatherability of the nanocomposites. Polym. Compos. 34(11), 1878-1883 (2013)... 

The acceleration of crystallization in iPP nanocomposites with clay was reported in many papers. The elevation of the nonisothermal crystallization peak temperature due to the presence of o-MMT was found in composites prepared by melt blending of o-MMT with iPP [109,110]. The nucleation effect of o-MMT during isothermal crystallization was observed in both PP-g-MA/o-MMT [99, 111] and iPP/PP-g-MA/o-MMT [98] systems and also in iPP/o-MMT nanocomposites synthesized by intercalation polymerization. In Reference... 

XRD patterns of octadecyl modified clay and ESO-clay nanocomposites with clay contents of 5, 10, 15, and 20 wt.%. Reproduced from Uyama, Kuwabara, Tsujimoto, Nakano, Usuki and Kobayashi by permission of American Chemical Society, USA. 

Ethylene propylene diene rubber is a well-known general-purpose rubber with a significant commercial importance. It has been one of the main mbbers to be investigated with organo-treated layered silicates to study the effects of nanoreinforcement on properties.EPDM nanocomposites with clays have been prepared by simple static mixing in confined chamber such as Haake, solution blending, and on a laboratory two roll mill. However, most EPDM/clay nanocomposites have been produced by conventional, internal melt blending process. " ... 

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