Two clay organo-heterostructures have been prepared and employed as fillers and catalyst supports for the development of polyethylene–clay nanocomposites. The new silica–clay organo-heterostructures have been obtained ...

Surface-modified silica nanoparticles have a plenty of applications, such as coatings, dyes or biomarkers, catalysts and encapsulated products. When modified with 3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyl methacrylate (SiO2-MPS) or covered ...

The use of graphite and polyolefins as starting materials to prepare nanocomposites is convenient because both are inexpensive and have very different properties, one is conductive and the other is insulating. The formation ...

Much has been talking about the advantages of polymeric nanocomposites, but little is known about the influence of nanoparticles on the stability of these materials. In this sense, we studied the influence of both oxides ...

Cerium(IV) and zinc(II) oxide nanocomposite powders (Zn-to-Ce atomic ratio between 0.5 and 2) as well as the pure oxideswere prepared by co-precipitation of cerium(III) and zinc(II) cations with oxalate (OC) or carbonate ...

Poly(propylene-1-octene)/graphite nanosheet (PPC8/GNS) nanocomposites with different comonomer and graphite nanosheet (GNS) contents were synthesized by in situ polymerization using metallocene catalyst. There was a ...