Rheological properties of PDMS/clay nanocomposites and their sensitivity to microstructure

Rheologica Acta

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1049-1058

  Zhu, Yutian ^a,b   Cardinaels, Ruth ^a   Mewis, Jan ^a   Moldenaers, Paula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion procedure; Flow reversals; Polymer clay nanocomposites; Scaling for dynamic moduli; Stress jumps; Transient viscosity

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC MODULI; FLOW REVERSALS; POLYMER/CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES; STRESS JUMPS;

ANISOTROPY; CLAY MINERALS; FLUID DYNAMICS; MICROSTRUCTURE; NANOCOMPOSITES; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR DEFORMATION; VISCOSITY;

DISPERSIONS;

EID: 70350475851     PISSN: 00354511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00397-009-0387-3     Document Type: Article

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