Role of casting solvent on nanoparticle dispersion in polymer nanocomposites

Macromolecules

Volumn 47, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 5246-5255

  Jouault, Nicolas ^a,b   Zhao, Dan ^a   Kumar, Sanat K ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b Université Pierre et Marie Curie Tour   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; DISPERSIONS; KETONES; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; PYRIDINE; SILICA;

DEPLETION ATTRACTION; DIFFERENT SOLVENTS; ELECTROSTATIC REPULSION; METHYL ETHYL KETONES; NANO-PARTICLE DISPERSIONS; POLY(2-VINYLPYRIDINE) (P2VP); POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE; SPATIAL DISPERSION;

SOLVENTS;

EID: 84905920456     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: 15205835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma500619g     Document Type: Article

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