Three preparative approaches are generally applied to obtain these hybrid materials: in situ polymerization intercalation, solution intercalation, and melt intercalation.
Our study is focused on CPN developed from polyvinyl alcohol and medical kaolinitic clay prepared by solution intercalation and mechanical mixing methods and characterised by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) techniques.
Polymer clay nanocomposites of poly ethylene oxide)/Na-montmorillonite (PEO/MMT) and PEO/organo-modified bentonite (B34) systems prepared via solution intercalation and melt intercalation have been compared by X-ray diffraction and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) analysis.
Using solution intercalation technique and magnetic stirring, 2%, 3%, and 4% by weight Montmorillonite K10 nanoclay were dispersed into the biodegradable polymer, biopol.
Lightly sulfonated syndiotactic polystyrene (sPS) nanocomposites were prepared using a solution intercalation technique, and the effect of montmorillonite clay on the crystallization kinetics of sulfonated sPS ionomer nanocomposites was systematically studied.
Similarly, chemically bonded and unbonded nanocomposites based on polyamides have also been documented by the present authors using both sol-gel and solution intercalation techniques [5 7, 23, 24, 26 28].
Producing clay composites can be achieved by four methods: in situ interactive polymerization, in situ synthesis, melt intercalation, and solution intercalation.
By comparing the solution intercalation of polystyrene and poly ethyl methacrylate) from different solvents, it is concluded that the interactions between polymer surfactant, solvent surfactant, and polymer solvent play important role for the solution intercalation of polymers.
New poly ether amide)/layered silicate nanocomposites (PEAN) containing dibenzalacetone and cinnamoyl moieties were prepared via solution intercalation technique from poly ether amide) 6 and organo-MMT in a solution of N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMAc).
Hybrid polymeric based nanocomposite coating systems (NCs) were fabricated by solution intercalation method with the use of epoxy (E) and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) as the host hybrid polymeric matrix and different weight ratio of SiO2 nanoparticles, ranging from 2 wt.
