Anomalous glass transition behavior of SBR-Al2O3 nanocomposites at small filler concentrations

Nanotechnology

Volumn 25, Issue 42, 2014, Pages

  Sushko, Rymma ^a   Filimon, Marlena ^a   Dannert, Rick ^a   Elens, Patrick ^a   Sanctuary, Roland ^a   Baller, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

alumina; DMA; glass transition; nanocomposites; nanoparticles; styrene butadiene; TMDSC

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; BUTADIENE; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS; ELASTIC MODULI; FILLERS; GLASS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MOLECULES; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; RUBBER; RUBBER INDUSTRY; STYRENE; TENSILE STRENGTH;

CRITICAL CONCENTRATION; GLASS TRANSITION BEHAVIOR; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYMERS; REINFORCEMENT EFFECTS; STYRENE BUTADIENE RUBBER; STYRENE BUTADIENES; TEMPERATURE MODULATED DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; TMDSC;

GLASS TRANSITION;

EID: 84907689889     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/25/42/425704     Document Type: Article

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