The nanoscale materials offer the opportunity to explore new behavior beyond those established in conventional materials. It has been established that mechanical and thermal properties, moisture barrier, and flame resistance of polymeric composites can be improved by adding a small amount of nanoparticles as filler particles without compromising the density, toughness, storage life, weight or p...

Recently, Supercritical fluids have been used in material synthesis and processing because of their special properties such as high diffusivity, low viscosity, and low surface tension. Supercritical carbon dioxide is the most attractive because it is non-toxic, non-flammable, and has moderate critical temperature and critical pressure. Moreover, and can also swell most polymers. In this study, ...

Frontal Polymerization 1,2 (FP) is an innovative technique that converts a monomer into a polymer as a result of the propagation of a reaction front along the reactor. In this work, the above technique has been used for the first time to synthesize nanocomposites, mainly based on hydrogels. Indeed, montmorillonite (MMT)-type clays and polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS) have been dispe...

An attempt has been made to investigate the effect of SiO2 nanoparticles on the conductivity of polypyrrole conducting polymeric films prepared by an electrochemical method. The obtained nanocomposites were characterized by FTIR, cyclic voltammetry (CV), electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The results indicate that the conductivity of the nanoco...

PPY, PANI and PPY-PANI-ZnO ternary nanocomposites were synthesized in the laboratory via chemical oxidative polymerization method. The formation of corresponding change nanostructure with incorporation ZnO was examined by X-ray diffraction technique (XRD). Nano-flakes like structure formed PPY-PANI polymeric matrix embodiment nanoparticles, as surface topology images. Optical transmittance spec...

This review article highlights essential manufacturing strategies for the formation of graphene reinforced polymeric nanocomposites. For thermoplastic, thermosetting and conducting matrix nanomaterials have been manufactured using solution casting, melt blending, in situ polymerization, electrospinning, 3D printing, several other techniques. Solution processing has well thought-out as an advant...

Initially, pristine polymers were used to develop corrosion-resistant coatings. Later, the trend shifted use of polymeric nanocomposites in anti-corrosion materials. In this regard, graphene has been identified as an important nanomaterial. Consequently, polymer/graphene have applied for erosion protection applications. Among polymers, conducting (polyaniline, polypyrrole, polythiophene, etc.) ...