Sepiolite needle-like clay for PA6 nanocomposites: An alternative to layered silicates?

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 69, Issue 15-16, 2009, Pages 2587-2595

  Bilotti, E ^a   Zhang, R ^a   Deng, H ^a   Quero, F ^a   Fischer, H R ^b   Peijs, T ^a,c  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

A. Nanoclay; A. Nanocomposite; C. Modelling; Polyamide 6

Indexed keywords

A. NANOCLAY; A. NANOCOMPOSITE; AMIDE GROUPS; C. MODELLING; CRYSTALLINITIES; FILLER-MATRIX; HALPIN-TSAI MODEL; ISOTROPIC COMPOSITES; LAYERED SILICATE; MELT-COMPOUNDING; MICROMECHANICAL MODEL; MONTMORILLONITE CLAY; NANOFILLER; NEEDLE-LIKE; PA6 NANOCOMPOSITES; POLYAMIDE 6; SEM AND TEM; SEMICRYSTALLINES; SEPIOLITE CLAY; SILANOL GROUPS; SMECTITES; TENSILE TESTS; TWIN SCREW EXTRUDERS;

AMIDES; ASPECT RATIO; BLOOD SUBSTITUTES; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FILLERS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN BONDS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PLATELETS; REINFORCEMENT; SILICATE MINERALS; TENSILE TESTING; TWO DIMENSIONAL; YIELD STRESS;

CLAY MINERALS;

MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; MORPHOLOGY; NANOCOMPOSITE; NYLON 6; STIFFNESS; SYNTHETIC POLYAMIDE; TENSILE PROPERTY;

EID: 70350068249     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2009.07.016     Document Type: Article

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