Polymer nanocomposites

By Zhong-Zhen Yu and Yiu-Wing Mai

Offering improved barrier properties, fire resistance, and strength, polymer nanocomposites are increasingly desirable as coating, structural, and packaging materials in a wide range of automobile, civil, and electrical engineering applications . Polymer Nanocomposites offers a comprehensive review of the main types of polymer nanocomposites and their properties. Part I reviews the range of layered silicates and discusses such properties as flammability, thermal stability, barrier properties, wear resistant and biodegradability. Part II considers nanotubes, nanoparticles, and inorganic-organic hybrid systems, and analysis elasticity and strength as well as magnetic and light-emitting properties.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0849392977
• ISBN13: 9780849392979
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 594 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 6.3"