Biodegradable polymers and their layered silicate nanocomposites: In greening the 21st century materials world

Progress in Materials Science

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 962-1079

  Ray, Suprakas Sinha ^a   Bousmina, Mosto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BIOCONVERSION; BIODEGRADATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLAY; CRYSTALLIZATION; DISPERSIONS; ECOLOGY; FLAMMABILITY; HYDROPHILICITY; INTERCALATION COMPOUNDS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; RHEOLOGY; SILICATES; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

INTERCALATIVE POLYMERIZATION; MELT RHEOLOGY; QUARTERNIZED AMMONIUM; SILICATE NANOCOMPOSITES;

POLYMERS;

EID: 23344441010     PISSN: 00796425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmatsci.2005.05.002     Document Type: Review

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