A bionanocomposite of grafted cellulose and organo modified clay was synthesized through solution intercalation method. For this purpose, chloromethylstyrene was grafted onto cellulose using acryloyl chloride and the subsequent free radical polymerization.The synthesized cellulose-graft-poly chloromethylstyrene was used as an atom transfer radical polymerization macroinitiator of acrylonitrile in the presence of CuCl /2, 2'-bipyridine catalyst system, to prepare the cellulose-graft-poly chloromethyl styrenegraft-polyacrylonitrile terpolymer. For preparing the modified clay, Na-MMT was mixed with hexadecyl trimethyl ammonium chloride salt. Finally, cellulose -graft-poly chloromethylstyrene -graft -polyacrylonitrile / organoclay bionanocomposite was prepared in CCl 4 by solution intercalation method. Downloaded by [University of California Santa Barbara] at 16:41 22 June 2016 2 Graphical Abstract:
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