Mild processing and characterization of silica epoxy hybrid nanocomposite

Polymer

Volumn 50, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 6265-6273

  Chen, Chenggang ^a   Morgan, Alexander B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epoxy; Nanocomposite; Silica

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; DISPERSIONS; EPOXY RESINS; FLAMMABILITY TESTING; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; GLASS; GLASS TRANSITION; MATERIALS TESTING; MORPHOLOGY; NANOCOMPOSITES; SILICA; TEMPERATURE; THERMOANALYSIS; YARN;

EPOXY; EPOXY NANOCOMPOSITES; HOMOGENEOUS DISPERSIONS; HYBRID NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSCALE MORPHOLOGY; PROCESSING CONDITION; PROCESSING PROCEDURES; SELF-POLYMERIZATION;

SILICA NANOPARTICLES;

DISPERSION; EPOXY RESIN; FILLING MATERIAL; FLAMMABILITY; FRACTURE; LOADING (TESTING); NANOCOMPOSITE; POLYMERIZATION; SILICON DIOXIDE; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 70549092980     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2009.11.002     Document Type: Article

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