TY - JFULL AU - M. Khlifa and A. Youssef and A. F. Zaed and A. Kraft and V. Arrighi PY - 2014/1/ TI - Synthesis of Polystyrene Grafting Filler Nanoparticles: Effect of Grafting on Mechanical Reinforcement T2 - International Journal of Chemical and Molecular Engineering SP - 1357 EP - 1362 VL - 8 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/9999962 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 96, 2014 N2 - A series of polystyrene (PS) nanoparticles were prepared by grafting polystyrene from both aggregated silica and colloidally dispersed silica nanoparticles using atom-transfer radical polymerisation (ATRP). Cross-linking and macroscopic gelation were minimised by using a miniemulsion system. The thermal and mechanical behaviour of the nanocomposites have been examined by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and dynamic mechanical thermal analysis (DMTA). ER -