Wood/polymer/nanoclay composites, environmentally friendly sustainable technology: A review

Effect of Surface Modification of Palygorskite on the Properties of Polypropylene/Polypropylene-g-Maleic Anhydride/Palygorskite Nanocomposites

“…The increment in the contact angle for other Pals can be interpreted as an increase in the hydrophobicity of the Pal surface due to the hydrophobic silane coupling agent or the cationic surfactant grafted to the surface. The enhancement of hydrophobicity in the organically modified clays could lead to an improvement in the dispersion/exfoliation of clay within the polymer [51]. It may be that, at this relatively high concentration of Pal, the agglomeration of silicate fibers acts as a stress concentrator, as reported in other studies [35,37].…”

Influence of Organically Modified Nanoclay on Thermal and Combustion Properties of Bagasse Reinforced HDPE Nanocomposites

“…The incorporation of 2 phc OMMT led to the increase in the flexural strength and modulus about 37 and 29%, respectively. The significant improvement in the flexural properties was related to the large aspect ratio and high interfacial contact area of the nanoparticles [10,[12][13][14][15][16][18][19][20][21][22]. As it can be clearly seen from Fig.…”

“…This increment in the tensile properties was mainly attributed to the reinforcing effect of OMMT with high aspect ratio [10,[12][13][14][15][16]. It was expected that strong interfacial adhesion between polymer matrix and nanoparticles efficiently transferred the stress and improved the mechanical properties [18][19][20][21][22].…”

“…Nowadays, the application of organo-modified montmorillonite (OMMT) as a nano-sized reinforcement in WPCs has been developed. It is evident that the addition of small amount of nanoclay (3-5 wt%) substantially enhance the WPCs performance [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22].…”

The effect of Poly-ethylene-co-glycidyl methacrylate efficiency and clay platelets on thermal and rheological properties of wood polyethylene composites.

“…Cloisite is the popular commercial nanoclays (NC) available in the market; clay filled polymers are widely used in packaging applications due to the ability of clay platelets to reduce permeability of penetrants through the polymer materials [6] [7]. Surface modified nanoclays (NC) are widely used in technological applications [8], because of their improvement of strength [9] [10], modulus, controlled biodegradability, and water vapor transmission resistance [11], which are dependent on the degree of dispersion of inorganic phase in polymeric matrix [12].…”