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Nanocomposites From Polymers and Layered Minerals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

H. R. Fischer
Affiliation:
TNO-TPD Institute of Applied Physics, Materials Division, P. 0. Box 595, 5600 AN Eindhoven, The Netherlands
L. H. Gielgens
Affiliation:
TNO-TPD Institute of Applied Physics, Materials Division, P. 0. Box 595, 5600 AN Eindhoven, The Netherlands
T. P. M. Koster
Affiliation:
TNO-TPD Institute of Applied Physics, Materials Division, P. 0. Box 595, 5600 AN Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Abstract

Composite materials consisting of polymeric matrix materials and natural or synthetic layered minerals like clays were prepared by using special compatibilizing agents between the two intrinsically non-miscible materials. These compatibiliseres are block- or graft copolymers combining one part of the polymer identically and/or completely miscible with the organic polymer (matrix compound) an another part compatible/miscible with the natural mineral. The interaction between the first part of the compatibiliser is preferentially an ionic interaction or an interaction via H-bonds. This interaction leads to a separation of the mineral into single sheets and a subsequent homogeneous incorporation of these sheets into the polymer matrix material.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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