Synthesis and characterization of high refractive index nanoparticle/poly(arylene ether ketone) nanocomposites

Polymer Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 179-184

  Imai, Yusuke ^a   Terahara, Atsushi ^a   Hakuta, Yukiya ^a   Matsui, Keitaro ^a   Hayashi, Hiromichi ^a   Ueno, Nobuhiko ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dispersion; Nanocomposites; Nanoparticles; Optical property; Refractive index; Surface modification

Indexed keywords

ARYLENE; DISPERSIBILITIES; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX; MATRIX POLYMERS; NANOPARTICLE SURFACE; OPTICAL CLARITY; ORGANIC MODIFICATION; ORGANIC-INORGANIC NANOCOMPOSITES; PHOSPHONIC ACIDS; POLY(ARYLENE ETHER KETONE); POLYMER CHAINS; SURFACE MODIFICATION; SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION; THERMAL PROPERTIES; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON; TRANSPARENT NANOCOMPOSITES; X RAY FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY;

CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DISPERSION (WAVES); ETHERS; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; KETONES; LIGHT REFRACTION; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ORGANIC ACIDS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; RESONANCE; SURFACE STRUCTURE; SURFACE TREATMENT; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 76949089019     PISSN: 00323896     EISSN: 13490540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/pj.2009.322     Document Type: Article

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