Synthesis and characterization of polymer/clay nanocomposites by intercalated chain transfer agent

Surface‐Initiated Reversible Addition Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT) Polymerization of Styrene from Laponite Clay Surfaces

“…[3,[12][13][14][15] Mathias [16] and Bourgeat-Lami [17] are known to have the first reports on SI-ATRP and SI-NMP carried out on Laponite clay. Laponite clay is composed of platelets with a uniform size of 25 nm and has since attracted a lot of attention in both industry and academia.…”

Synthesis and characterization of polystyrene sulfonic acid-polyaniline and montmorillonite nanocomposites

“…These cations are hydrated, and the MMT layers can easily swell to accommodate larger cations (inorganic or organic) or larger amounts of water. Such modification increases the basal spacing of MMT which facilitates the intercalation of organic monomers even at the standard atmospheric conditions and allow polymerizing monomers by reacting with the interlayer cations (Akat et al, 2008). These composites provide strong interactive effects between the polymer and MMT clay which could be the result in enhanced electrical, optical, mechanical, and thermal properties when compared to their conventional composites (Liu et al, 2001).…”

Synthesis, Characterization and Photoinduced Cross-linking of Functionalized Poly(cyclohexyl methacrylate) Copolymer/Clay Nanocomposite as Negative Image Patterning Material

“…The accordingly designed in-situ polymerization or molecular interactions in the clay galleries yield nanocomposites with exfoliated structures. A wide range of conventional thermal [9] and photochemical [10], and controlled/living polymerizations [8] have been successfully used to activate the in-situ polymerizations resulting in the formation of polymer/clay nanocomposites with linear [11], branched [12], star [13], block [14] and graft copolymer [15] structures.…”