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Polyimide/silica hybrids via the sol-gel route: High performance materials for the new technological challenges

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EXPRESS POLYMER LETTERS
Volume 3, Issue 7, Pages 413-428

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BUDAPEST UNIV TECHNOL & ECON
DOI: 10.3144/expresspolymlett.2009.51

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nanocomposites; hybrid materials; polyimide; silica; sol-gel

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The present review article describes in detail the state-of-the-art of organic-inorganic hybrid materials based on polyimide/silica components. The article is divided in three parts. In the first the basic processing route for the preparation of these systems is described, i.e. the sol-gel technique, along with the strategies developed to control the final morphology. In the second part the curing characteristics, the dynamic-mechanical and the mechanical and fracture properties of hybrids with different morphologies are reviewed. Finally, the more technologically relevant applications devised for these high performance materials are discussed.

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