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Influence of Clay Exfoliation on the Properties of Evoh/Clay Flexible Films

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Characterization of Minerals, Metals, and Materials 2015

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This work aims to incorporate the Bof White Clay, from Boa Vista, Paraiba State, Brazil, as natural nanofiller in Ehylene vinyl alcohol copolymer (EVOH) and obtain flexible films. Nanocomposite was obtained using a twin-screw extruder, and film formed using a blow extruder machine. The flexible film nanocomposite was characterized, by tensile tests, XRD, DSC and their properties were evaluated. The results showed a good interaction between the clay and the EVOH resulting in an increase of properties of films nanocomposites as compared to films neat polymer.

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  1. Nuclear and Energy Research Institute, IPEN-CNEN/SP, Av. Prof. L. Prestes, 2242, 05508-000, Sao Paulo, Brazil

    Renato B. Godoy, Andressa Silva, Roberta Lima, Rene R. Oliveira & Esperidiana Moura

  2. Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department, Polytechnic School, University of São Paulo, Av. Prof. Mello de Moraes, 2463, São Paulo, SP, 05508-030, Brazil

    Messias dos Santos Machado & Francisco Valenzuela-Díaz

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  1. Materials Science and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Canada

    John S. Carpenter (technical staff member) (technical staff member)

  2. Department of Metallurgical Engineering, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing University, China

    Chenguang Bai (Professor) (Professor)

  3. School of Engineering and Information Technology, UNSW Australia at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia

    Juan Pablo Escobedo (Lecturer) (Lecturer)

  4. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Michigan Technological University, USA

    Jiann-Yang Hwang (Professor) (Professor)

  5. University of Jordan, Jordan

    Shadia Ikhmayies B.Sc. from the physics department

  6. Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Institute of Materials Processing, Michigan Technological University, USA

    Bowen Li (Research Associate Professor) (Research Associate Professor)

  7. CanmetMATERIALS in Natural Resources Canada, Canada

    Jian Li (research scientist) (research scientist)

  8. Military Institute of Engineering (IME), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Sergio Neves Monteiro (Professor) (Professor)

  9. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Michigan Technological University, USA

    Zhiwei Peng (Research Assistant Professor, a new faculty member) (Research Assistant Professor, a new faculty member)

  10. Central South University, China

    Zhiwei Peng (Research Assistant Professor, a new faculty member) (Research Assistant Professor, a new faculty member)

  11. ArcelorMittal Global R&D, East Chicago, Indiana, USA

    Mingming Zhang (a senior research engineer) (a senior research engineer)

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Machado, M. et al. (2015). Influence of Clay Exfoliation on the Properties of Evoh/Clay Flexible Films. In: Carpenter, J.S., et al. Characterization of Minerals, Metals, and Materials 2015. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48191-3_34

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