Polypropylene/Montmorillonite Nanocomposites. Review of the Synthetic Routes and Materials Properties

By E. Manias, A. Touny, Lixin Wu, K. Strawhecker, B. Lu, T. Chung. 2001

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Structural engineering of polyurethane coatings for high performance applications (2007, background): “, higher stiffness and strength [367,368]; (iii) higher permeation-barrier properties due to reduction in straightway movement of water and oxygen molecule [362]; (iv) improved thermal properties, such as fire retardance and heat distortion temperature (HDT) [362,369–378].”
Polymer Nanocomposites—A Comparison between Carbon Nanotubes, Graphene, and Clay as Nanofillers (2016, methodology): “This approach has been found useful for developing PP-clay [108,109] and PE-clay [100] systems.”
Nanostructured artificial nacre (2003, background): “The addition of inorganic components, such as clays, to organic polymers noticeably improves the mechanical, barrier and thermal properties of polymers and rubber”
Preparation and characterization of graphite nanosheets from ultrasonic powdering technique (2004, background): “[7], the field of polymer/silicate has gained large momentum recently [8–10].”
Concepts for the incorporation of inorganic building blocks into organic polymers on a nanoscale (2003, methodology): “Polypropylene was intercalated into montmorillonite using either functionalized random or diblock copolymers and common organomodified layered systems, or by using neat/unmodified polypropylene and a semi-fluorinated organic modification for the silicates [138].”