The investigation of exfoliation process of organic modified montmorillonite in thermoplastic polyurethane with different molecular weights

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 68, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 1815-1821

  Meng, Xiaoyu ^a,b   Du, Xiaohua ^a,b   Wang, Zhe ^a,b   Bi, Wuguo ^a   Tang, Tao ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

A. Layered structures; A. Nanocomposites; A. Polymers; Exfoliation

Indexed keywords

CLAY MINERALS; DISPERSIONS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORPHOLOGY; NANOCOMPOSITES; POLYURETHANES; RHEOLOGY; THERMOPLASTICS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VISCOSITY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

EXFOLIATION; THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANE;

POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES;

MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORPHOLOGY; NANOCOMPOSITE; POLYURETHANE; THERMOPLASTIC PROPERTY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 42249084561     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2008.01.012     Document Type: Article

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