Polymer nanocomposites : synthesis, characterization, and modeling / Ramanan Krishnamoorthi, editor, Richard A. Vaia, editor

"Developed from a symposium sponsored by the Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering at the 219th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Francisco, California, March 26-30, 2000."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Polymer nanocomposites : introduction / Richard A. Vaia, Ramanan Krishnamoorti -- Commercialization of polymer nanocomposites / Jon Collister -- PMMA nanocomposites synthesized by emulsion polymerization / Sumanda Bandyopadhyaya, ALex J. Hsieh, Emmanuel P. Giannelis -- Boron nitride fillers for organic polymer composites / R.T. Paine [and others] -- Surface-initiated anionic polymerization : tethered polymer brushes on silicate flat surfaces / Qungye Zhou [and others] -- Predicting the phase behavior of polymer-clay nanocomposites : the role of end-functionalized chains / Valeriy V. Ginzburg, Anna C. Balazs -- Carbon black structure and associations in filled rubbers / Rex P. Hjelm -- Investigative study of polymer adsorption to smectite clay : polyelectrolytes and sodium montmorillonite / Robert Y. Lochhead, Cheri McConnell Boykin -- Mesoscopic structure of polymer-inorganic nanocomposites / Richard A. Vaia, Derek Lincoln -- Solution and solid-state NMR spectroscopy of nylon 6-montmorillonite clay nanocomposites / Rick D. Davis, William L. Jarrett, Lon J. Mathias -- Studies of organically modified clays by scattering techniques / Derek L. Ho, Robert M. Briber, Charles J. Glinka -- Thin film organically modified layered silicate-polymer hybrid materials / R. Limary, P.F. Green -- Influence of layered-silicates on the rheological properties of diblock copolymer nanocomposites / Cynthia A. Mitchell, Ramanan Krishnamoorti -- Dispersion and nucleating effects of clay fillers in nanocomposite polymer films / Vincent Ferreiro [and others] -- Molecular simulations of ultra-confined polymers : polystyrene intercalated in layered-silicates / E. Manias, V. Kuppa -- Coarse-grained simulation study of polymer melt intercalation in layered nanostructures / R.K. Bharadwaj, R.A. Vaia, B.L. Farmer