Morphology, rheology and mechanical properties of polypropylene/ethylene-octene copolymer/clay nanocomposites: Effects of the compatibilizer

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 72, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 1697-1704

  Bagheri Kazemabad, Sedigheh ^a   Fox, Daniel ^c   Chen, Yanhui ^c   Geever, Luke M ^d   Khavandi, Alireza ^a   Bagheri, Reza ^e   Higginbotham, Clement L ^d   Zhang, Hongzhou ^c   Chen, Biqiong ^b  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d Athletic Rehabilitation Therapy Ireland   (Ireland)

^e SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

A. Nanoclays; A. Nanocomposites; B. Mechanical properties

Indexed keywords

CLAY PARTICLES; COMPLEX VISCOSITY; DISPERSION STATE; ELASTOMER PARTICLES; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; INTERCALATED STRUCTURES; INTERFACE REGIONS; MALEATED POLYPROPYLENES; NANO CLAYS; POLYETHYLENE-CO-OCTENE; RHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIORS; TERNARY NANOCOMPOSITES; TWIN SCREW EXTRUDERS;

COMPATIBILIZERS; COPOLYMERS; ETHYLENE; MALEIC ANHYDRIDE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MORPHOLOGY; POLYPROPYLENES; RHEOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

NANOCOMPOSITES;

EID: 84865613170     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2012.06.007     Document Type: Article

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