Research Article

Fire and Gas Barrier Properties of Poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile) Nanocomposites Using Polycaprolactone/Clay Nanohybrid Based-Masterbatch

Table 2

relaxation time and f parameter, that is, the fraction of polymer/clay interface effectively formed with respect to the maximum amount of polymer chains that could fit around individual nanoplatelets, for SAN/CL30B and SAN/CL30B-PCL with 3 wt% of inorganics.

(s)f

SAN41.7
SAN/CL30B21.710.23
SAN/CL30B-PCL3.121