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POLYMER-PLASTICS TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING
Volume 50, Issue 14, Pages 1458-1469Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/03602559.2011.593079
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Morphology; Nanocomposites; SEM; TEM; XRD
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Natural fiber-reinforced polypropylene (PP) nanocomposites at different weight percentages of fiber content were fabricated using a Haake twin screw extruder, followed by compression molding with the presence maleic anhydride grafted polypropylene (MA-g-PP) as a compatibilizer. Incorporation of both the fibers and nanoclay into PP matrix resulted in an increase in mechanical properties with an increasing level of fiber content up to 30 wt% and 3 wt% of nanoclay with 5 wt% of compatibilizer. The morphology of the fiber-reinforced PP-nanocomposites has been examined by using X-ray diffraction (XRD), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM), respectively.
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