Polymer Nanocomposites with Clay and Carbon Nanotubes

Polymer Nanocomposites with Clay and Carbon Nanotubes 

College of Polymer Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, 

Keywords polymer nanocomposite, clay, CNTs, synergistic effect, network. 

Mittal (ed.) Polymer Nanotube Nanocomposites, (83-112) Scrivener Publishing LLC 

In the previous several years, various nanoparticles have been assembled into pairs to fabricate polymer nanocomposites, such as clay/silica (45), clay/carbon black (43), CNTs/clay (41,42), and CNTs/Titanium (38). Polymer/CNTs/clay ternary composite is one of most important multiphase systems with interesting synergistic effect, where sodium based montmorillonite (MMT) are the most commonly used layered clay. In this chapter, we will select some typical examples to demonstrate the importance and synergies of using CNTs and clay together in the preparation of polymer nanocomposites. 

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