EFFECT OF DRAWING ON STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF COPOLYAMIDE NANOCOMPOSITES BY FILM BLOWING

The aim of the present work is to analyze bubble stability in the film blowing processing of copolyamide based nanocomposites and to investigate the effect of uniaxial film drawing on nanostructure and final properties. Nanocomposite films with different loadings of nanoclay were produced by film blowing equipment and collected at different draw ratios. Oxygen barrier and mechanical properties of the films were investigated and correlated to the resulting nanomorphology and polymer crystal structures