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MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 26, Issue 3, Pages 143-149Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/marc.200400489
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laponite; microscopy; nanocomposites; poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO); X-ray
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The usual structure of poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) and Laponite clay in transparent nanocomposite films was investigated using scanning electron, atomic force, and optical microscopy, and X-ray scattering. Each method is sensitive to different aspects of structural features and together they measure the resulting morphology and shear-induced orientation. On nanometer length scales, clay platelets were found to orient in bundles while polymer crystallinity was suppressed. Microscopy led to the observation of unexpected and highly oriented multilayers on the micron length scale.
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