Tearing behavior of blends of isotactic polypropylene and nitrile rubber: Influence of blend ratio, morphology and compatibilizer loading

Materials Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 51-58

  George, Snooppy ^a   Prasannakumari, L ^b   Koshy, Peter ^b   Varughese, K T ^c   Thomas, Sabu ^a  

^a MAHATMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b REGIONAL RESEARCH LABORATORY CSIR   (India)

^c CENTRAL POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Nitrile rubber; Polymer blends; Polypropylene; Tearing behavior

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; COMPOSITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POLYPROPYLENES; RUBBER; TENSILE STRENGTH;

BLEND RATIO; COMPATIBILIZERS; HALPIN-TSAI EQUATION AND CORAN MODEL; NITRILE RUBBER; PARALLEL MODEL; SERIES MODEL; TEARING BEHAVIOR;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 0029776665     PISSN: 0167577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-577X(95)00212-X     Document Type: Article

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