Polymer-layered silicate nanocomposites: preparation, properties and uses of a new class of materials

By M. Alexandre, Philippe Dubois. 2000

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Subfields: Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics

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In Materials Chemistry

1. Erik T. Thostenson
2. T. Chou
3. Chunyu Li
4. David Hui
5. V. Mittal
6. J. Kumar
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Citations in the corpus

• Nanocomposites: a brief review (2019, background): “The characteristics of PMNCs are: high thermal stability, improved mechanical properties (high abrasion resistance) and lower gas permeability (higher barrier capacity) [37].”
• Water barrier properties of polyamide 12/montmorillonite nanocomposite membranes : Structure and volume fraction effects (2009, background): “Six classes of particles have been determined as a function of the mean thickness e: Class (i) for e = i to i + 1 nm, the last class (6) being for e > 6 nm.”
• Synthesis and characterization of novel organo-montmorillonites (2008, background): “…studied fundamentally and in practical applications in the area of organic–inorganic hybrids, composites and nano-scale composites (Giannelis, 1996; Kojima et al.,1993a,b; Alexandre and Dubois, 2000; Fornes et al., 2002; Stretz et al., 2005; Ruiz-Hitzky and Van Meerbeek,2006; Shah et al., 2007).”
• Natural Biopolymer-Based Nanocomposite Films for Packaging Applications (2007, methodology): “Cellulose whiskers (microcrystalline cellulose) have two dimensions in the nanometer scale, like carbon nanotubes (Alexandre and Dubois, 2000), and have been successfully used for the reinforcing of biopolymers.”
• Poly-Lactic Acid: Production, Applications, Nanocomposites, and Release Studies. (2010, background): “Three types of nanocomposites include isodimensional nanoparticles (with 3 nano dimensions), nanotubes or whiskers (with 2 nano dimensions), and polymerlayered crystal nanocomposites (with 1 nano dimension) (Alexandre and Dubois 2000).”
• Glass transition and molecular dynamics in poly(dimethylsiloxane)/silica nanocomposites (2005, neutral): “The materials used as nanoscale fillers include layered silicates [1], ceramic nanoparticles such as silica and titania [2], and carbon in the form of nanoparticles [3], graphite sheets [4] and carbon nanotubes [5].”