Mechanical, thermal and flammability properties of ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA)/sepiolite nanocomposites

Polymer Testing

Volumn 37, Issue , 2014, Pages 117-122

  Bidsorkhi, Hossein Cheraghi ^a   Soheilmoghaddam, Mohammad ^a   Pour, Raheleh Heidar ^a   Adelnia, Hossein ^b   Mohamad, Zurina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA); Mechanical properties; Nanocomposites; Sepiolite; Thermal properties

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; ELASTIC MODULI; ETHYLENE; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; TENSILE STRENGTH; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

ETHYLENE-VINYL ACETATE; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FIRE RETARDANCY; FLAMMABILITY PROPERTIES; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; LIMITING OXYGEN INDEX; SEPIOLITE; TWIN SCREW EXTRUDERS;

NANOCOMPOSITES;

EID: 84902383334     PISSN: 01429418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymertesting.2014.05.007     Document Type: Article

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