Nylon 6 nanocomposites: the effect of matrix molecular weight

By T. D. Fornes, P. J. Yoon, H. Keskkula, D. R. Paul. 2001

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Polymers and Plastics

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In Biomaterials

1. S. Sinha Ray
2. V. Mittal
3. Masami Okamoto
4. D. R. Paul
5. In‐Yup Jeon
6. Jong‐Beom Baek
7. T. D. Fornes
8. Yu Dong

In Polymers and Plastics

1. V. Mittal
2. S. Sinha Ray
3. Masami Okamoto
4. D. R. Paul
5. P. Pötschke
6. T. D. Fornes
7. Jong‐Beom Baek
8. In‐Yup Jeon

Citations in the corpus

• Rheological behavior of multiwalled carbon nanotube/polycarbonate composites (2002, background): “On the other hand, at higher shear rates orientation of anisometric plate-like fillers may lead to lower viscosities in capillary flow regimes as mentioned by Fornes et al. [ 42 ] for organoclay nanocomposites based on polyamide-6.”
• POLYMER/LAYERED SILICATE NANOCOMPOSITES: A REVIEW FROM PREPARATION TO PROCESSING (2003, methodology): “Effect of MMT content on tensile modulus for LMW, MMW, and HMW based nanocomposites [149].”
• Nanocomposites Derived from Polymers and Inorganic Nanoparticles (2010, background): “Mechanism of organoclay dispersion and exfoliation during melt processing [44].”
• Effects of clay type, clay/compatibiliser content and matrix viscosity on the mechanical properties of polypropylene/organoclay nanocomposites (2008, result): “This finding is in contrast with the literature results on nylon 6/clay nanocomposites where a better exfoliation was achieved by increasing the molecular weight of the polymer [ 19 ].”