Computer simulation of polypropylene/organoclay nanocomposites: Characterization of atomic scale structure and prediction of binding energy

Polymer

Volumn 45, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 8075-8083

  Toth, Radovan ^a,c   Coslanich, Alessandro ^a   Ferrone, Marco ^a   Fermeglia, Maurizio ^a   Pricl, Sabrina ^a   Miertus, Stanislav ^b   Chiellini, Emo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b Intl Ctr Sci and High Technol   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Binding energies; Molecular simulations; Polypropylene clay nanocomposites

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; CLAY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSIONS; POLYPROPYLENES; SALTS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

BASAL SPACING; MOLECULAR SIMULATION; ORGANOCLAY NANOCOMPOSITES; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM SALTS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; HYDROCARBON; HYDROGEN; MONTMORILLONITE; POLYMER; POLYPROPYLENE; SURFACTANT;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CLAY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUBSTITUTION REACTION;

POLYMER SCIENCE;

EID: 5644225518     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2004.09.025     Document Type: Article

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