Fire retardancy of polymer clay nanocomposites: Is there an influence of the nanomorphology?

Polymer Degradation and Stability

Volumn 93, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2019-2024

  Samyn, Fabienne ^a   Bourbigot, Serge ^a   Jama, Charafeddine ^a   Bellayer, Séverine ^a  

^a Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Lille   (France)

Author keywords

Dispersion; Fire retardant; Nanocomposite; Polyamide 6; Solid state NMR

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; BLENDING; CLAY MINERALS; FIRES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; NANOCOMPOSITES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ORGANOCLAY; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; POLYMERS; POWER AMPLIFIERS;

CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES; CONSISTENT; FIRE BEHAVIOURS; FIRE RETARDANCY; FIRE RETARDANT; FIRE RETARDANTS; MELT BLENDING; MORPHO-LOGIES; NANOMORPHOLOGY; POLYMER/CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES; PRECISE; SIGNIFICANT REDUCTIONS; SOLID STATE NMR; TACTOIDS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 54549119052     PISSN: 01413910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2008.02.013     Document Type: Article

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