Morphology and properties of silane-modified montmorillonite clays and clay/PBT composites

Commercially available organoclay (Closite 30B) was modified by using 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APS) via a silylation reaction. Sodium clay (Closite Na) was treated by APS directly as a control. Such modified clays were further melt-compounded with polybutylene terephthalate (PBT). The morpholog...

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Main Authors: Chaoying Wan, Xujin Bao, Feng Zhao, Balasubramanian Kandasubramanian, Matthew P. Duggan
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Published: 2008
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/22436
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