Assessment of rheological and mechanical properties of nanostructured materials based on thermoplastic olefin blend and organoclay

Materials and Design

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 649-655

  Hejazi, Iman ^a   Seyfi, Javad ^b   Sadeghi, Gity Mir Mohamad ^a   Davachi, Seyed Mohammad ^b  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Mechanical properties; Nanomaterials; Rheology

Indexed keywords

IMPACT TEST; MELT-COMPOUNDING; MIXING TIME; NANO-MATERIALS; OPTIMUM PROPERTIES; ORGANO-MODIFIED MONTMORILLONITES; PROCESSING PARAMETERS; PROCESSING VARIABLES; RHEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; RHEOLOGICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY; ROTOR SPEED; STEADY SHEAR MEASUREMENTS; TENSILE MODULI; THERMOPLASTIC OLEFIN; X RAY DIFFRACTOMETRY;

CLAY MINERALS; ELASTICITY; IMPACT STRENGTH; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OLEFINS; REINFORCED PLASTICS; RHEOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VISCOSITY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 77958472312     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2010.08.009     Document Type: Article

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