Research Letters in Nanotechnology
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 405153, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/405153
Research Letter

Development of SBR-Nanoclay Composites with Epoxidized Natural Rubber as Compatibilizer

R. Rajasekar,1 Gert Heinrich,2 Amit Das,2 and Chapal Kumar Das1

1Materials Science Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721 302, India
2Department of Composite, Leibniz-Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, Hohe Straße 6, 01069 Dresden, Germany

Received 26 April 2009; Accepted 20 May 2009

Academic Editor: Jaime Grunlan

Copyright © 2009 R. Rajasekar et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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