Development of novel melt-compounded starch-grafted polypropylene/polypropylene-grafted maleic anhydride/organoclay ternary hybrids

Express Polymer Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 937-952

  Tessier, R ^a,b   Lafranche, E ^a,b   Krawczak, P ^a,b  

^a ECOLE DES MINES DE DOUAI   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Clay; Mechanical properties; Nanocomposites; Polymer blends; Starch

Indexed keywords

CLAY DISPERSION; CLAY INTERCALATION; CLOISITE; COROTATING TWIN-SCREW EXTRUDERS; GRAFTING LEVELS; NON-POLAR; ORGANO-MODIFIED MONTMORILLONITES; POLAR FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; REINFORCEMENT EFFECTS; TERNARY HYBRID; WEIGHT CONTENT;

CLAY; COPOLYMERS; ETHYLENE; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); MALEIC ANHYDRIDE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NANOCOMPOSITES; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYPROPYLENES; STARCH; THERMOPLASTICS;

ORGANOCLAY;

EID: 84866056734     PISSN: 1788618X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3144/expresspolymlett.2012.99     Document Type: Article

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