Trends in Polymer/Organoclay Nanocomposites

Abstract

..................................................................................................115 5.1 Introduction ...................................................................................116 5.2 Experimental Part ..........................................................................116 5.3 Results and Discussion .................................................................117 5.4 Conclusions .................................................................................. 122 Keywords .............................................................................................. 123 References ............................................................................................. 123ABSTRACTIt has been shown that organoclay platelets aggregation in "packets" (tactoids) results in large-scale disorder intensification that reduces nanofiller anisotropy degree. In its turn, this factor decreases essentiallynanocomposites reinforcement degree. The interfacial adhesion role in anisotropy level definition has been shown.