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Mapping The Concentration Profile At The Poly(Vinyl Chloride)/Poly(Ethyl Methacrylate) Interface, Esmaiel Jabbari, Nikolaos Peppas
Mapping The Concentration Profile At The Poly(Vinyl Chloride)/Poly(Ethyl Methacrylate) Interface, Esmaiel Jabbari, Nikolaos Peppas
Esmaiel Jabbari
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Polymer Based Nanocomposites With Nanofibers And Exfoliated Clay, Michael Meador, Darrell Reneker
Polymer Based Nanocomposites With Nanofibers And Exfoliated Clay, Michael Meador, Darrell Reneker
Darrell Hyson Reneker
Polymer solutions, containing clay sheets, were electrospun into nanofibers and microfibers that contained clay sheets inside. Controllable removal of polymer by plasma etching from the surface of fibers revealed the arrangement of clay. The shape, flexibility, size distribution and arrangement of clay sheets were observed by transmission and scanning electron microscopy. The clay sheets were partially aligned in big fibers with normal direction of clay sheets perpendicular to fiber axis. Crumpling of clay sheets inside fibers was observed when the fiber diameter was comparable to the lateral size of clay sheets. Single sheets of clay were observed both by catching …