Thermal-mechanical properties of polyurethane-clay shape memory polymer nanocomposites

Polymers

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 31-39

  Xu, Bin ^a   Fu, Yong Qing ^a,b   Huang, Wei Min ^c   Pei, Yu Tao ^d   Chen, Zhen Guo ^d   De Hosson, Jeff T M ^d   Kraft, Arno ^a   Reuben, R L ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Microhardness; Nano clay; Nanocomposites; Polyurethane; Shape memory; Vickers indentation

Indexed keywords

CLAY CONTENT; CLAY NANOCOMPOSITES; MELT MIXING; MICROHARDNESS TESTS; NANO CLAYS; POLYMER INTERACTIONS; SHAPE MEMORY; SHAPE MEMORY POLYMERS; SHAPE MEMORY RECOVERY; THERMAL MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; VICKERS INDENTATION;

MARTENSITIC TRANSFORMATIONS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MICROHARDNESS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

NANOCOMPOSITES;

EID: 79952844538     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/polym2020031     Document Type: Article

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