Author:Kumar, R; Kumar, R; Ofosu, ODate:Oct 2015The commodity articles from polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) are widely used in today’s world. To reduce the carbon footprint, biopolymers such as polylactic acid (PLA) as commodity plastics are also explored. Often, these polymers ...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