Nanostructured materials gained great importance in the past decade on account of their
wide range of potential applications in many areas. A large interest is devoted to carbon …

Interest in polymer/clay nanocomposites began in 1989 with the publication of a paper by
the Toyota Central Research group detailing very unusual physical property improvements …

Introducing ionic associations is one of the most effective approaches to realize a self-
healing behavior for rubbers. However, most of commercial rubbers are nonpolar rubbers …

Rubber with excellent mechanical properties and self-healing ability could have great
applicability in the next generation of glove fabrication. Developing durable gloves with …

Self-healing based on noncovalent bonds and mechanical strengthening based on fillers
are contradictions for commercial rubbers. To solve this problem, in this paper, we …

Cellulose nanofibres (CNF) with diameter 10–60 nm were isolated from raw banana fibres
by steam explosion process. These CNF were used as reinforcing elements in natural …

In a previous work [Macromolecules 2005, 38, 3783], nanocomposite materials obtained
from a latex of natural rubber (NR) as matrix and an aqueous suspension of waxy maize …

Nanocomposite materials were obtained using a latex of natural rubber as the matrix and an
aqueous suspension of waxy maize starch nanocrystals as the reinforcing phase. Starch …

Vitrimer chemistry of boronic transesterification was introduced into a triblock thermoplastic
elastomer to allow associative bond exchange in its highly ordered nanoscale domains. The …

In the presence of dicumyl peroxide (DCP), biobased thermoplastic vulcanizates (TPVs)
composed of poly (lactic acid)(PLA) and epoxidized natural rubber (ENR) were prepared …