Oxygen barrier property of polypropylene-polyether treated clay nanocomposite

Express Polymer Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 429-439

  Pannirselvam, Muthu ^a   Genovese, A ^a   Jollands, M C ^a   Bhattacharya, S N ^a   Shanks, R A ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gas tortuous path theory; Nanocomposites; Oxygen barrier properties; Polyether treated clay; Surfactants

Indexed keywords

EID: 47349115012     PISSN: 1788618X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3144/expresspolymlett.2008.52     Document Type: Article

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