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ISRN Nanotechnology
Volume 2011, Article ID 962932, 7 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2011/962932
Research Article

Study of Catalytic Effect of Nanolayered Montmorillonite Organoclays in Epoxy Polymer

T. P. Mohan and K. Kanny

Composites Research Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Durban University of Technology, Durban 4000, South Africa

Received 27 May 2011; Accepted 12 July 2011

Academic Editors: E. Cattaruzza, T. Pal, A. Swami, and C.-S. Yeh

Copyright © 2011 T. P. Mohan and K. Kanny. 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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