Preparation of tailor-made polystyrene nanocomposite with mixed clay-anchored and free chains via atom transfer radical polymerization

AIChE Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1873-1881

  Roghani Mamaqani, Hossein ^a   Haddadi Asl, Vahid ^a   Najafi, Mohammad ^a,b   Salami Kalajahi, Mehdi ^a,b  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM INDUSTRY RIPI   (Iran)

Author keywords

ATRP; Nanocomposite; Tailor made polystyrene

Indexed keywords

CLAY LOADINGS; DEGRADATION TEMPERATURES; DOUBLE BONDS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT EVALUATION; NANO CLAYS; POLYSTYRENE CHAINS; POLYSTYRENE NANOCOMPOSITES; TAILOR-MADE POLYSTYRENE;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; NANOCOMPOSITES; POLYSTYRENES; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ATOM TRANSFER RADICAL POLYMERIZATION;

EID: 79958741105     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.12395     Document Type: Article

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