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Article: Intercalation and exfoliation of talc by solid-state shear compounding ([S.sup.3]C) using pan-mill equipment.
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- Polymer Engineering and Science
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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INTRODUCTION
Since a clay-reinforced nylon nanocomposite with excellent properties was developed by the Toyota group [1], much attention has been paid to developing layered silicate as a reinforcement material for polymers. The preparation method is called intercalation compounding, including intercalative polymerization, solution intercalation, and melt intercalation, among other processes. [2]. These three approaches have been success-fully applied to quite a lot of polymers, e.g., poly(ethylene terephthalate) [3], poly(methyle methacrylate) [4], polystyrene [5], epoxy [6, 7], polyamide [1, 8], and polyurethane [9]. However, there are some challenges for the ...