Environmental degradation of epoxy–organoclay nanocomposites due to UV exposure. Part I: Photo-degradation

By R. S. Woo, Yanghai Chen, Honggang Zhu, Jing Li, Janghoon Kim, Christopher K. Y. Leung. 2007

171 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics

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In Materials Chemistry

1. M. Tripathi
2. A. Nikiforov
3. Shengnan Zhang
4. F. Awaja
5. Nicola Maria Pugno
6. B. Fox
7. Markus J. Buehler
8. Chang Q. Sun

In Polymers and Plastics

1. M. Tripathi
2. A. Nikiforov
3. Shengnan Zhang
4. Nicola Maria Pugno
5. F. Awaja
6. B. Fox

Citations in the corpus

• Cracks, microcracks and fracture in polymer structures: Formation, detection, autonomic repair (2016, background): “UV photons are absorbed by polymers and these give rise to photo-oxidative reactions which cause molecular chain scission and/or chain crosslinking [6,118].”
• Crack Damage in Polymers and Composites: A Review (2016, background): “Upon UV exposure, UV photons are absorbed by polymers and these give rise to photo-oxidative reactions, which causes molecular chain scission and/or chain crosslinking.(104,105) The molecular chain scission process generates polymer radicals and lowers the molecular weight of polymers.”