Author:Malwela, Thomas; Khumalo, VM; Salehiyan, Reza; Ray, Suprakas SDate:Jul 2018The influences of surface treatment and the concentration of boehmite alumina (BA) particles on polypropylene and polystyrene (PS) (80/20) blends produced via melt compounding were examined. The results show that p-toluene sulfonic acid-treated ...Read more
Author:Pedrazzoli, D; Tuba, F; Khumalo, VM; Pegoretti, A; Karger-Kocsis, JDate:2014In this work the influence of synthetic boehmite alumina (BA) nanoparticles with various surface treatments on the morphology, crystallization behavior and mechanical properties of polypropylene copolymer (PP) nanocomposites was studied. In ...Read more