Polymer clay nanocomposite

Meneghetti, P. and Qutubuddin, S. 2006. Synthesis, thermal properties and applications of polymer-clay nanocomposites. Thermochimica Acta 442 74-77. 

Okada, A. and Usuki, A. 2006. Twenty years of polymer-clay nanocomposites. Macromolecular Materials and Engineering 291 1449-1476. 

Many different polymers have already been used to synthesize polymer-clay nanocomposites. In this section, an overview of the advances that have been made during the last 10 years in the intercalation and the delamination of organoclay in different polymeric media is given. The discussion mainly covers the work involving thermoset nanocomposites along with a brief discussion about thermoplastic-based nanocomposites. 

Pinnavaia, T.J. and Beall, G.W. Polymer-Clay Nanocomposites, Wiley United Kingdom, 2000. 

There are three general approaches to the synthesis of polymer-clay nanocomposites. In the first approach, a monomer or precursor is mixed with organophilic clay and followed by polymerization. This in situ polymerization technique was first developed by the... 

A. Polymer-Clay Nanocomposites Synthesized from Monomers... 

As reflected in this chapter, most of the published literature on polymer-clay nanocomposites focuses on synthesis and characterization. Future work should address is-... 

TJ. Pinnavaia and G.W. Beall, Polymer-Clay Nanocomposites, John Wiley Sons, Inc., New York, NY (2001). 

T.J. Pinnavaia and G. Beall (Eds.), Polymer-Clay Nanocomposites, Wiley, New York, 2001. 

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