PNCs containing three-dimensional nanoparticles

Creep response of PNCs containing three-dimensional nanoparticles... 

Nanoparticles used in PNCs are one-dimensional (e.g., fibers, tubes, whiskers), two-dimensional (platelets), or three-dimensional (spheres or nearly so, e.g., see Chapter 15). The latter ones are rather meso- than nano-sized and are used mainly in functionalized PNCs. Currently, structural PNCs of industrial interest contain platy inorganic substances that can be exfoliated into dispersions of individual platelets about r 1 nm (or less) thick examples are given in Table 16.1. 

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