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Polypropylene/Montmorillonite Nanocomposites: Continuous Stretching and Load-Cycling

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In-situ Small-Angle X-ray Scattering Investigation of Transient Nanostructure of Multi-phase Polymer Materials Under Mechanical Deformation

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Abstract

In the last two decades there have been a lot of efforts to improve mechanical properties of polypropylene [1] via compounding it with layered silicates (clay) [2–7]. For instance, enhancements of storage modulus [8–10], Young’s modulus [11, 12], impact strength [13, 14], and tensile strength [15, 16] have been reported. Layered silicates can be mixed with polypropylene in the melt state using conventional polymer processing machinery [3, 4, 6, 16]. Nevertheless, incompatibility of layered silicates with hydrophobic polypropylene chains provokes problems with dispersing them inside the matrix [17, 18].

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    Strain-heterogeneity and the effects of compatibilizer are explored further in the discussion of MFC materials in Chap. 6.

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