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Article: Glass-Polymer Melt Hybrids. I: Viscoelastic Properties of Novel Affordable Organic-Inorganic Polymer Hybrids.
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- Polymer Engineering and Science
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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SUNIL B. ADALJA [1]
JOSHUA U. OTAIGBE [1, 2,*]
JASON THALACKER [1]
A novel class of organic-inorganic polymer hybrids was developed by melt- blending up to 50 (v/v) % [about 83 (w/w) %] tin-based polyphosphate glass (Pglass) and low-density polyethylene (LDPE) in conventional plastics processing equipment. The liquid- and solid-state rheology of the polymer hybrids was studied under oscillatory shear flow and deformation to understand the behavior of these materials and to accelerate efforts to melt process the Pglass with organic polymers. All the materials were found to be linearly viscoelastic in the range of temperature and frequencies ...