Abstract: A waterborne latex-based technique has been used to prepare acrylic films with laponite contents up to about 25 vol%. The laponite was attached to the surfaces of the latex particles, giving a cellular arrangement of laponite-rich regions at high laponite contents. Two regimes of reinforcement were observed, depending on whether T was above or below T-g, reinforcement at T > T-g being significantly greater than predicted by micromechanical models. Modulated differential scanning calorimetry and dynamic mechanical analysis showed part of the org...
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Composite material
Polymer chemistry