Rubber-toughened polyamide 6/clay nanocomposites

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 66, Issue 11-12, 2006, Pages 1833-1843

  Gonzalez I ^a   Eguiazabal J I ^a   Nazabal J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Critical interparticle distance; Nanocomposites; Super toughness

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; BUTADIENE; CLAY; COPOLYMERS; ETHYLENE; MORPHOLOGY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POLYMER BLENDS; RUBBER; STYRENE; TENSILE PROPERTIES; TOUGHENING;

CRITICAL INTERPARTICLE DISTANCE; MALEINIZED STYRENE ETHYLENE/BUTADIENE-STYRENE COPOLYMER; ORGANICALLY MODIFIED MONTMORILLONITE;

POLYAMIDES;

COPOLYMER; MORPHOLOGY; NANOCOMPOSITE; PARTICLE SIZE; SYNTHETIC POLYAMIDE; SYNTHETIC RUBBER; TOUGHNESS;

EID: 33745095018     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2005.10.008     Document Type: Article

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