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Preparing film composites based on crazed polymers and silica sol nanoparticles

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Films of polymer/silica nanocomposites based don isotactic polypropylene and high density polyethylene are prepared via solvent-crazing in the tetrahydrofurane solution of molecular silica sol. This method allows us to disperse SiO2 particles with a diameter of 5–15 nm in a volume of polymer matrices homogeneously and at the nanometer level. The possibility of producing a fragmented riffled silica coating onto polymer surfaces is presented.

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Original Russian Text © E.S. Trofimchuk, N.I. Nikonorova, E.A. Nesterova, A.M. Muzafarov, I.B. Meshkov, A.L. Volynskii, N.F. Bakeev, 2009, published in Rossiiskie nanotekhnologii, 2009, Vol. 4, Nos. 9–10.

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Trofimchuk, E.S., Nikonorova, N.I., Nesterova, E.A. et al. Preparing film composites based on crazed polymers and silica sol nanoparticles. Nanotechnol Russia 4, 736–740 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S199507800909016X

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