Improving the Mechanical Properties of Polysaccharide Derivatives through Melt Compounding with Nano-Clays [Elektronische Ressource] / Mehdi Hassan Nejad. Betreuer: Manfred Wagner

Improving the Mechanical Properties of Polysaccharide Derivatives through Melt Compounding with Nano-Clays Vorgelegt von Mehdi Hassan Nejad Von der Fakultät III – Prozesswissenschaften der Technischen Universität Berlin zur Erlangung des Akademischen Grades Doktor der Ingenieurwissenschaften -Dr.-Ing.- genehmigte Dissertation Promotionsausschuss: Vorsitzender: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. W. Reimers Gutachter: Prof. Dr.-Ing. M. H. Wagner Gutachrof. Dr. habil. H. -P. Fink Tag der wissenschaftlichen Aussprache: 12. April 2011 Berlin 2011 D 83 Acknowledgement My sincere thanks go to my supervisor Prof. Dr.-Ing. M. H. Wagner for his scientific guidance during my thesis. I would like to express my deep and sincere gratitude to Prof. Dr. habil. H. P. Fink for his scientific and administrative help and guidance during my work. I greatly appreciate having the chance to work for Fraunhofer in an interesting field. I owe my most sincere gratitude to Dr. J. Ganster for his detailed and constructive comments and his support throughout this work. He was always ready to help and found a solution for any problem that we faced. I wish to extend my warmest thanks to all those who have helped me with my work in the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research, IAP. I would like to thank Dr. A. Bohn for X-ray analysis, Dr. M. Pinnow for SEM and TEM images as well as the help of Mrs. Schlawne, Dr.