Mechanical, thermal and viscoelastic behavior of Nylon 6/clay nanocomposites with cotreated montmorillonites

Polymer - Plastics Technology and Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 367-376

  Mohanty, Smita ^a   Nayak, Sanjay K ^a  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF PLASTICS ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Crystallization; DSC; Nanocomposite; TEM; TGA; XRD

Indexed keywords

CLAY MINERALS; INTERCALATION; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOCRYSTALLIZATION; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; VISCOELASTICITY; WATER ABSORPTION;

CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURE; EXFOLIATION; MELT INTERCALATION TECHNIQUE; SODIUM MONTMORILLONITE;

NYLON POLYMERS;

CLAY MINERALS; INTERCALATION; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOCRYSTALLIZATION; NYLON POLYMERS; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; VISCOELASTICITY; WATER ABSORPTION;

CALORIMETRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; MATRIX; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; MODIFICATION; NANOCOMPOSITE; NYLON 6; TEMPERATURE; TESTING; THERMAL PROPERTY; THERMAL STABILITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VISCOELASTICITY; X-RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 33947719647     PISSN: 03602559     EISSN: 15256111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03602550601156029     Document Type: Article

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