Exfoliation targeted toughness enhancement in polypropylene-blend-montmorillonite nanocomposites

Polymer International

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1395-1403

  Bagcioglu, Cuneyt ^a   Altuntas, Esra ^a   Şen, Sinan ^a   Islier, M Bora ^a   Ersoy, Osman G ^b   Ersoy, Nuri ^a   Nugay, Turgut ^a   Nugay, Nihan ^a  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Arcelik AS   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Clay organoclay; EPDM graft MA; Impact resistance; Montmorillonite; Nanocomposites; Polypropylene; Toughness

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCES; CLAY EXFOLIATIONS; CLAY LOADINGS; CLAY/ORGANOCLAY; DYNAMIC MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; DYNAMIC MECHANICALS; EPDM-GRAFT-MA; EXFOLIATED NANOCOMPOSITES; IZOD IMPACTS; LOW DEGREES; MELT EXTRUSIONS; MONTMORILLONITE; MONTMORILLONITE NANOCOMPOSITES; NANO-LAYERS; PP MATRIXES; TESTING METHODS; TOUGHNESS ENHANCEMENTS; TOUGHNESS PROPERTIES; TWIN-SCREW EXTRUDERS; X- RAY DIFFRACTIONS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CLAY MINERALS; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS; ETHYLENE; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); IMPACT RESISTANCE; IMPACT TESTING; LOADING; MALEIC ANHYDRIDE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MELT SPINNING; NANOCOMPOSITES; ORGANOCLAY; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; PROPYLENE; PUMPING PLANTS; RUBBER; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICATE MINERALS; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; THERMOPLASTICS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES;

MECHANICAL PROPERTY; NANOCOMPOSITE; POLYPROPYLENE; SYNTHETIC RUBBER; TOUGHNESS;

EID: 63249104227     PISSN: 09598103     EISSN: 10970126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pi.2486     Document Type: Article

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