Production and characterization of polyethylene/clay multilayer nanocomposite films for food packaging. In Abstracts from XIV AIMAT National Congress, XI National Conference on Materials Science and Technology, July 2017, Ischia, Italy

Polymer/clay nanocomposites have become useful materials also in the field of food packaging thanks to several advantages such as enhanced mechanical, thermal and barrier properties. To avoid the problem of possible nanoparticles migration, the nanocomposite layer can be incorporated between neat polymer layers. Moreover, due to the importance of nanocomposites morphology, processing parameters are important and, for non-polar polymers like polyolefin, compatibilizers are necessary to obtain exfoliated/intercalated morphologies.