Please make sure to display your thought process? It isimperative to be able to follow how the answer was deduced. Pleasebe as thorough as possible. Please address all parts as they arecritical to answering this question correctly:
1) Discuss the type of surface treatments that are applied tonanoclays in order to improve nanoclay dispersion in polymermatrices. What happens when untreated nanoclay is used to reinforcea polymer? What happens when a properly organically modified clayis used? List and discuss three techniques that are used tocharacterize the microstructure/nanostructure of nanoclay-filledpolymers.
