Process for Improving the Exfoliation and Dispersion of Nanoclay Particles into Polymer Matrices Using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
An environmentally benign process, which uses supercritical carbon dioxide (sc-CO2) as a processing aid, was developed in this work to help exfoliate and disperse nanoclay into the polymer matrices at high clay content. The process involves the use of a pressurized CO2 chamber to assist in the exfol...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27596 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05082007-185651/ |