Morphological Study on Room-Temperature-Cured PMMA-Grafted Natural Rubber-Toughened Epoxy/Layered Silicate Nanocomposite

Figure 5

TEM images of the cured epoxy, Cloisite 30B nanocomposite showing (a) and (b) Cloisite 30B aggregates in epoxy; they show the spatial distribution of exfoliated clay aggregates. (c) The intercalated structure of Cloisite 30B silicate layers, and the estimated interparticle distances are (i) 3.00, (ii) 1.43, and (iii) 3.90 nm.