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Design, Synthesis, Processing, And Thermal Analysis Of Nanocomposites With Tunable Properties, Mu Seong Kim
Design, Synthesis, Processing, And Thermal Analysis Of Nanocomposites With Tunable Properties, Mu Seong Kim
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Polymer composites containing nanosized fillers have generated explosive interest since the early 1980's. Many recent studies have been conducted incorporating nano-fillers into polymer matrices to design and synthesize materials with tunable mechanical, thermal, and optical properties. Conventional filled polymers, where the reinforcement is on the order of microns, have been replaced by composites with discrete nanosized fillers. Gradually, theories that predicted that composite properties are independent of particle size in the micron range were challenged by nanocomposites. Rather, nanocomposite properties are greatly influenced by the surface area of the. All of this is complicated by the fact that nanoparticles are …