COMPOSITES COMPRISING POLYMER AND MESOPOROUS SILICATE

摘要

Surfactant-templated mesoporous silicates and mesoporous layered silicate clays having certain porosity parameters are used as reinforcing agents for polymers to make composites. The combination of porosity parameters that allows mesoporous silicates to be competitive with organoclays for the reinforcement of engineering polymers include an average mesopore size of at least 4 nm for surfactant-templated mesoporous silicates and least 2 nm for mesoporous layered silicate clays.