Thermal stability and degradation kinetics of poly(methyl methacrylate)/sepiolite nanocomposites by direct melt compounding

Journal of Macromolecular Science, Part B: Physics

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 521-529

  Huang, Nianhua ^a   Chen, Zhijun ^a   Liu, Hao ^a   Wang, Jianqi ^b  

^a WUHAN TEXTILE UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

degradation kinetics; nanocomposite; poly(methyl methacrylate); sepiolite; thermal stability

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION PROCESS; APPARENT ACTIVATION ENERGY; COROTATING TWIN-SCREW EXTRUDERS; DEGRADATION KINETICS; DEGREE OF CONVERSION; DIRECT MELT-COMPOUNDING; FLYNN-WALL-OZAWA; MELT-COMPOUNDING; NANO-METER SCALE; PMMA MATRICES; SEPIOLITE; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY TEM; TRIMETHYL; XRD;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ADSORPTION; DEGRADATION; ESTERS; NANOCOMPOSITES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

EID: 84872689619     PISSN: 00222348     EISSN: 1525609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222348.2012.716318     Document Type: Article

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