Growth of Nano-Needles of Manganese(IV) Oxide by Atomic Layer Deposition

Epoxy-based nanocomposites for electrical energy storage. II: Nanocomposites with nanofillers of reactive montmorillonite covalently-bonded with barium titanate

“…The above thermodynamic properties of the glass transition process are consistent with the development of robust interfaces ͑e.g., T g increases for filler weight fractions below the percolation threshold limit͒, which can only emanate from the crosslinking between the TETA on the oMMT particles and the epoxides in the polymer matrix, and which are thermodynamically similar to the bulk environments. 13,34 These T g based insights on the interfacial strength of the composites will be correlated with the composites' mechanical and electrical properties in the following sections. Dynamic mechanical analysis was also performed to investigate the thermomechanical properties of the composites and their relationship to the electrical properties.…”

“…The design of high performance power systems necessitates novel dielectric materials with enhanced insulating properties. Toward this direction, polymer nanocomposites have been extensively investigated in an effort to improve the electrical insulation 1-6 and the thermomechanical properties [7][8][9][10][11][12][13] of the polymer matrix. The main drawbacks in such approaches typically relate to the polymer-filler interfaces, in particular when these interfaces are characterized by properties adverse to the desired macroscopic behavior.…”

“…The main drawbacks in such approaches typically relate to the polymer-filler interfaces, in particular when these interfaces are characterized by properties adverse to the desired macroscopic behavior. With increasing filler surface area, and depending on the polymers-filler interactions, 14,15 the presence of such interfaces can govern the macroscopic properties of the composite 16 and also determine properties like the impact strength [7][8][9][10][11][12][13] or the dielectric breakdown strength. 17,18 In the previous paper of this series, 19 we investigated epoxy resin composites based on organically modified montmorillonite ͑oMMT͒ and barium titanate ͑BT͒ nanoparticles in order to exploit the high aspect ratio of the montmorillonite ͑MMT͒ and the high permittivity of the BT particles, which improve the mechanical performance and the operating electric field of the nanocomposite, respectively.…”

The Utility of Nanocomposites in Fire Retardancy

“…The nanometer-scale material which has been most investigated is layered clay, primarily including layered silicates (montmorillonite (MMT) is the most studied member of this family) [9,10,11]. Other nanometer dimension materials that have been studied include layered double hydroxides (LDHs) [12,13,14,15] and carbon nanotubes, either single-, double- or multi-wall [16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25].…”

Green Highly Clay-Filled Polyethylene Composites as Coating Materials for Cable Industry—A New Application Route of Non-Organophilised Natural Montmorillonites in Polymeric Materials

“…This relation was reversed for the samples containing the m-EVA agent, and PmEVA/CW-5 reached a quite higher TS (15.5 MPa) than PmEVA/Ca-5 (10.9 MPa). It shows that platelets (or aggregates) of the organophilised montmorillonite (CW9) were more effectively dispersed in the PE matrix contained the EVA copolymer enriched with maleic anhydride (mEVA) (as it was noted in [ 24 ]). On the other hand, the applied unmodified copolymers/dispersing agents (EBA, EVA) more positively affected the mechanical parameters of the C–Ca-filled composites.…”