Preparation and characterization of organoclay-filled, vinyl ester-modified unsaturated polyester nanocomposites

High Performance Polymers

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 16-27

  Sharmila, Rajkumar Josephine ^a   Premkumar, Shanmugam ^b   Alagar, Muthukaruppan ^a  

^a Quaid E Millath Government College for Women   (India)

^b ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Clay; Morphology; Nanocomposites; Tensile strength; Thermal stability; Unsaturated polyester; Vinyl ester oligomer; Water absorption

Indexed keywords

ACRYLIC ACIDS; CLAY LAYERS; CROSS-LINK DENSITIES; DYNAMIC MECHANICAL MEASUREMENTS; ORGANOPHILIC MONTMORILLONITES; POLYMER MOLECULE; RESIN MATRIX; SEM; THERMAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; THERMAL STABILITY; TOUGHENING AGENTS; UNSATURATED POLYESTER; UNSATURATED POLYESTER RESIN; VINYL ESTER OLIGOMER; VINYL ESTERS;

CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CLAY MINERALS; DIFFRACTION; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS; EPOXY RESINS; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MORPHOLOGY; NANOCOMPOSITES; ORGANIC ACIDS; ORGANOCLAY; POLYESTER RESINS; POLYETHYLENES; POLYMER BLENDS; RESINS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICATE MINERALS; SYSTEM STABILITY; TENSILE STRENGTH; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; WATER ABSORPTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

UNSATURATED POLYMERS;

EID: 77649267007     PISSN: 09540083     EISSN: 13616412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0954008308099491     Document Type: Article

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