An assessment of the role of morphology in thermal/thermo-oxidative degradation mechanism of PP/EVA/clay nanocomposites

Polymer Degradation and Stability

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 859-869

  Goodarzi, Vahabodin ^a   Jafari, Seyed Hassan ^a   Khonakdar, Hossein Ali ^b   Monemian, Seyed Ali ^a   Mortazavi, Mehdi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b IRAN POLYMER AND PETROCHEMICAL INSTITUTE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Charred residue; Morphology; Nanocomposites; Thermal degradation; Thermo oxidative degradation

Indexed keywords

CHARRED RESIDUE; DEGRADATION BEHAVIOR; DEGRADATION PROCESS; DROPLET SIZES; ETHYLENE VINYL ACETATE COPOLYMER; FTIR ANALYSIS; INTERLAYER SPACINGS; ISOTHERMAL DEGRADATION; MORPHOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; ORGANICALLY MODIFIED MONTMORILLONITE; OXIDATIVE DEGRADATION; OXIDATIVE PARAMETERS; PP MATRIX; PREDICTION MODEL; ROUGH ESTIMATION; TEMPERATURE RANGE; THERMAL DEGRADATION; THERMAL DEGRADATIONS; THERMO-OXIDATIVE DEGRADATION;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; BOND STRENGTH (CHEMICAL); CLAY MINERALS; DROP FORMATION; ETHYLENE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOCOMPOSITES; POLYPROPYLENES; POLYVINYL ACETATES; SILICATE MINERALS; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

DEGRADATION;

EID: 77949882988     PISSN: 01413910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2010.01.009     Document Type: Article

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