Effect of the addition of modified nanoclays on the surface properties of the resultant polyethylene terephthalate/clay nanocomposites

Polymer - Plastics Technology and Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 874-884

  Parvinzadeh, Mazeyar ^a   Moradian, Siamak ^b   Rashidi, Abosaeed ^c   Yazdanshenas, Mohamad Esmail ^c  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Hydrophilic; Hydrophobic; Nanoclay; PET

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC TECHNIQUE; CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES; CLAY PARTICLES; INTERFACIAL INTERACTION; MELT-COMPOUNDING; MODIFIED CLAYS; NANO CLAYS; NANOCLAY PARTICLES; NONUNIFORMITY; PET COMPOSITES; REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY IMAGE; SEM; TEREPHTHALATE;

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; CONTACT ANGLE; ETHYLENE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; SODIUM; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TRACE ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

FRACTURE; HYDROPHILIC PROPERTY; HYDROPHOBIC PROPERTY; INTERFACIAL PROPERTY; NANOCOMPOSITE; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 77954632214     PISSN: 03602559     EISSN: 15256111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03602551003664628     Document Type: Article

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