ISRN Nanotechnology
Volume 2011 (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
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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