Polymer-layered silicate nanocomposites: preparation, properties and uses of a new class of materials
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...Recently, there have been many reports concerned with the improved thermal stability of nanocomposites prepared with various types of OMLS and polymer matrices [6,7,14,141]....
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...Like PVA, various other polymers also show optical transparency after nanocomposite preparation with OMLS [141,305]....
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...Dependence of tensile modulus ðEÞ on clay content measured at 120 8C [141]....
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...Generally, the degradation of PCL fits a two-step mechanism [141,171]; first random chain scission through Fig....
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...DMA has been used to study temperature dependence of the storage modulus of PMMA upon nanocomposite formation under different experimental conditions [141]....
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...Thus far, the majority of research has focused on polymer nanocomposites based on layered materials of a natural origin, such as a montmorillonite type of layered silicate compounds or synthetic clay (layered double hydroxide) [5–17]....
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...In particular, the use of inorganic nanomaterials as fillers in the preparation of polymer/inorganic composites has attracted increasing interest owing to their unique properties and numerous potential applications in the automotive, aerospace, construction and electronic industries [4–11]....
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