# POLYPROPYLENE/ETHYLENE-OCTENE COPOLYMER/ORGANIC-MONTMORILLONITE NANOCOMPOSITES

> Title: POLYPROPYLENE/ETHYLENE-OCTENE COPOLYMER/ORGANIC-MONTMORILLONITE NANOCOMPOSITES Page Range: p.173-180 Author(s): Minyan Guo; Xiaodong Zhou, Gance Dai; Fuzeng Hu File size: 238K Download the pdf (subscribers only) Buy the pdf (non-subscribers) Journal: Polymers and Polymer Composites Issue Year: ppc Volume: 13 Issue No: No. 2...

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Published: 2005-02-01T00:00:00+00:00
Categories: Polymers and Polymer Composites

**Title: POLYPROPYLENE/ETHYLENE-OCTENE COPOLYMER/ORGANIC-MONTMORILLONITE NANOCOMPOSITES**
 Page Range: p.173-180
 Author(s): Minyan Guo; Xiaodong Zhou, Gance Dai; Fuzeng Hu
 File size: 238K
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 Journal: Polymers and Polymer Composites
 Issue Year: ppc
 Volume: 13
 Issue No: No. 2

**Abstract**
 Propylene (PP)/ethylene-octene copolymer(POE)/organic montmorillonite (OMMT) nanocomposites were prepared by melt compounding. PP grafted with maleic anhydride (MPP) was added as the compatibilising agent. Analyses were carried out by wide-angle X-ray diffraction, TEM and SEM, which indicated that polymer chains had intercalated into OMMT, and that some of the OMMT had delaminated into nanolayers dispersed in the PP matrix. Mechanical tests showed that the addition of POE had increased the toughness of PP, but decreased its stiffness, but that when OMMT and MPP were added, the toughness of PP increased greatly, with no profound change in the stiffness. DSC was used to study the melt and crystallisation behaviour of the composites. Results indicated that OMMT and MPP had acted as effective nucleating agents. 14 refs.

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