Dramatic improvements in toughness in poly(lactide-co-glycolide) nanocomposites

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Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 662-669

  Xu, Wei ^a   Raychowdhury, Subhendu ^a   Jiang, David D ^a   Retsos, Haris ^a   Giannelis, Emmanuel P ^a  

^a School of Chemical and Molecular Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodegradable materials; Mechanical properties; Nanocomposites; Poly(lactide co gtycolide); Relaxation modes

Indexed keywords

AUGER ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; BRITTLE FRACTURE; CHEMICALS; CLAY MINERALS; COBALT; COBALT ALLOYS; COBALT COMPOUNDS; CRAZING; CROSSLINKING; DIELECTRIC SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON OPTICS; FRACTURE FIXATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MECHANISMS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; NEUTRON SCATTERING; POLYMERS; SCATTERING; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE RELAXATION; SURFACES; TENSILE TESTING; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY SCATTERING; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; X RAYS;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; (1 1 1) ORIENTATION; (ABIOTIC AND BIOTIC) STRESS; CLAY NANOCOMPOSITE; CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES (CN); CLAY NANOPARTICLES; CRAZING AND SHEAR YIELDING; CROSS LINKS; DIELECTRIC RELAXATION SPECTROSCOPY (DES); FRACTURE STRENGTHS; FUMED SILICA (FS); HEXAMETHYL DISILAZANE (HMDS); LACTIDE CO GLYCOLIDE (PLGA); MODIFIED CLAYS; NANO COMPOSITES; POLY LACTIDE CO GLYCOLIDE (PLAGA); RHEOMETRY; SLOW RELAXATIONS; SMALL-ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING (SAXS); TENSILE TESTS; TOUGHENING MECHANISMS; X RAY SCATTERING;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

NANOMATERIAL; POLYGLACTIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; HARDNESS; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TENSILE STRENGTH; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; HARDNESS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYGLACTIN 910; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 44949191309     PISSN: 16136810     EISSN: 16136829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smll.200701231     Document Type: Article

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