Order Development in Polymer-Clay Nanocomposites: from Aqueous Gels to Multilayered Films
Stefanescu C., Stefanescu E.A., Stefanescu C., Stefanescu E.A., Daly W.H., Negulescu I.I., Virginia Commonwealth University, US
When passing a material through a semihyperbolic convergent die in an elongational rheometer, high degrees of order are induced in the material, and the entropy changes, indicative of orientation, can be calculated. The aim of [...]