Polyethylene-based nanocomposites containing organoclay: A new approach to enhance gas barrier via multilayer coextrusion and interdiffusion

Polymer

Volumn 61, Issue , 2015, Pages 42-54

  Decker, Jeremy J ^a   Meyers, Kevin P ^a   Paul, Donald R ^b   Schiraldi, David A ^c   Hiltner, Anne ^c   Nazarenko, Sergei ^a  

^a The University of Southern Mississippi   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

Clay; Nanocomposites; Polyethylene

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; CLAY; COEXTRUSION; FILLED POLYMERS; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); LINEAR LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENES; MALEIC ANHYDRIDE; MULTILAYER FILMS; MULTILAYERS; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; NANOCOMPOSITES; POLYETHYLENES;

LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENE (LDPE); MORPHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS; MULTI-LAYERED FILMS; NANO-COMPOSITE LAYERS; PARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; PARTICULATE FILLED POLYMERS; POLYETHYLENE-BASED NANOCOMPOSITES; TWIN SCREW EXTRUDERS;

GAS PERMEABLE MEMBRANES;

EID: 84923096554     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2015.01.061     Document Type: Article

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