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Alumina-Filled?Polystyrene?Micro-?and?NanocompositesPrepared?by?Melt?Mixing?with?and?Without?LatexPrecompounding:?Structure?and?PropertiesS.?Siengchin,1?J.?Karger-Kocsis,1?R.?Thomann21Institute?for?Composite?Materials?(Institut?fu¨r?Verbundwerkstoffe?GmbH),?Kaiserslautern?University?of?Technology,Erwin?Schro¨dinger?Str.,?D-67663?Kaiserslautern,?Germany2Institut?fu¨r?Makromolekulare?Chemie?und?Freiburger?Materialforschungszentrum,?Albert-Ludwigs-Universita¨tFreiburg,?Stefan-Meier-Str.?31,?D-79104?Freiburg,?GermanyReceived?2?December?2006;?accepted?4?March?2007DOI?10.1002/app.26505Published?online?16?May?2007?in?Wiley?InterScience?().ABSTRACT:?Alumina?〓llers?were?incorporated?in?poly-styrene?(PS)?in?4.5?wt?%?by?melt?blending?with?and?with-out?latex?precompounding.?Latex?precompounding?wasused?for?the?latex-mediated?predispersion?of?the?aluminaparticles.?The?related?masterbatch?was?produced?by?mixingPS?latex?with?water?dispersible?boehmite?alumina?in?vari-ous?particle?sizes?followed?by?drying.?The?dispersion?ofthe?alumina?in?the?PS?was?studied?by?transmission?andscanning?electron?microscopy?(TEM?and?SEM,?respec-tively).?The?mechanical?and?thermomechanical?propertiesof?the?PS?composites?were?determined?in?uniaxial?tensile,dynamic-mechanical?thermal?analysis?(DMTA),?and?short-time?creep?tests?performed?at?various?temperatures.?Inaddition,?the?melt?〓ow?of?the?composites?was?character-ized?in?a?plate/plate?rheometer.?It?was?found?that?directmelt?mixing?of?the?alumina?with?PS?resulted?in?micro-,whereas?the?masterbatch?technique?in?nanocomposites.The?stiffness?and?resistance?to?creep?(summarized?in?mas-ter?curves)?of?the?nanocomposites?were?improved?com-pared?to?those?of?the?microcomposites.?The?properties?ofthe?composites?were?upgraded?by?decreasing?nominal?sizeof?the?water?dispersible?alumina.?The?preparation?tech-nique?and?the?size?of?the?alumina?particles?affected?thetensile?strength,?melt?viscosity,?and?heat?distortion?temper-ature?in?