Morphological, mechanical, and thermal characterization of biopolymer composites based on polylactide and nanographite platelets

Polymer Composites

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1505-1515

  Narimissa, Esmaeil ^a   Gupta, Rahul K ^a   Choi, Hyoung J ^b   Kao, Nhol ^a   Jollands, Margaret ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Inha University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINITIES; DEGREE OF DISPERSION; MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE; MELT BLENDING; MIXING METHOD; NANO-GRAPHITE; POLY LACTIDE; PROPERTIES OF COMPOSITES; STRUCTURAL MORPHOLOGY; THERMAL CHARACTERISTICS; THERMAL CHARACTERIZATION; XRD;

BLENDING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PLATELETS;

GRAPHITE;

EID: 84865363272     PISSN: 02728397     EISSN: 15480569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pc.22280     Document Type: Article

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