Breaking the nanoparticle loading–dispersion dichotomy in polymer nanocomposites with the art of croissant-making
- Submitting institution
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The University of Warwick
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 9665
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1021/acsnano.8b02877
- Title of journal
- ACS Nano
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- First page
- 9040
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 9
- ISSN
- 1936-0851
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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16
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This paper describes a novel dispersion method for nanoparticles in a polymer using a bakers' transformation inspired 'pressing & folding' method. The method tackles one of the bottlenecks in nanocomposite processing, namely how to disperse nanoparticles at high filler loadings. The method has attracted significant interest in the scientific and industrial community and resulted in a number of invited presentations at international conferences incl. Eurofillers 2019 (Palermo). Lead author Dr. Santagiuliana is currently a Polymer Research Manager at Nanoforce Technology Ltd. The work lead to follow up funding (£120k) for a PDRA from SABIC (han.goossens@sabic.com).
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- Non-English
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