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Article: Morphology, thermal, and mechanical properties of vinylester resin nanocomposites with various organo-modified montmorillonites.
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- Polymer Engineering and Science
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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INTRODUCTION
Polymer-layered silicate nanocomposites have attracted increasing interest from science and industry because they often exhibit greatly improved mechanical, thermal, barrier, and fire-retardant properties at very low clay contents (in general, less than 5 wt%) (1-4). This is in a marked contrast to conventional reinforcing materials, such as talc, mica, silica, and glass fiber, which require high concentrations, and thus incur processing and disposing difficulties, to provide a fraction of these enhancements. The nanocomposites are mainly prepared by three different methods: solution intercalation, in-situ intercalative polymerization, and polymer ...
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