Preparation and characterisation of polyamide 11/montmorillonite (MMT) nanocomposites for use in angioplasty balloon applications

Materials Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 336-348

  Halim, Khairul Anwar A ^a,b   Farrell, Joseph B ^a   Kennedy, James E ^a  

^a Athletic Rehabilitation Therapy Ireland   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PERLIS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Composite materials; Crystallisation; Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC); Electron microscopy (TEM); Polymers

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC MECHANICAL THERMAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES (TEM); MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE; MELT-COMPOUNDING; ORGANICALLY MODIFIED MONTMORILLONITE; POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE; REINFORCING EFFECTS; ULTIMATE TENSILE STRENGTH;

BALLOONS; BLENDING; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; CRYSTALLIZATION; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL TESTING; MORPHOLOGY; NANOCOMPOSITES; POLYMERS; REINFORCEMENT; TENSILE STRENGTH; THERMOANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

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EID: 84886721148     PISSN: 02540584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matchemphys.2013.09.007     Document Type: Article

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