Emergence of fibrillar composites due to chaotic mixing of Molten polymers

Polymer Composites

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 187-197

  Liu, Y H ^a   Zumbrunnen, D A ^a  

^a AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENES; MIXING; MOLTEN MATERIALS; MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC POLYMERS; POLYSTYRENES; SURFACE TENSION; ETHYLENE; POLYMERS;

CHAOTIC MIXING; FIBRILLAR COMPOSITES; FIBRILS; FLOW STRUCTURES; MOLTEN POLYMERS; POLYETHYLENE STAT VINYL ACETATE; POLYMER PROCESSING INDUSTRY;

FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; MIXING;

FIBRILLAR MORPHOLOGY; FIBRILLAR STRUCTURES; LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENE(LDPE); MOLTEN POLYMERS; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; POLYMER PROCESSING; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; VISCOSITY RATIOS;

EID: 0030126434     PISSN: 02728397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pc.10604     Document Type: Article

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