Blends of amorphous-crystalline block copolymers with amorphous homopolymers. Morphological studies by electron microscopy and small angle scattering

Polymer

Volumn 37, Issue 20, 1996, Pages 4443-4453

  Sakurai, Kazuo ^a,b   MacKnight, William J ^b   Lohse, David J ^c   Schulz, Donald N ^c   Sissano, Joseph A ^c   Lin, Jar Shyong ^d   Agamalyan, Mikhail ^e  

^a KANEBO LTD   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blends; Semicrystalline block; Symmetric diblock copolymers

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; BLENDING; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COMPOSITION EFFECTS; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; MORPHOLOGY; POLYETHYLENES; POLYPROPYLENES; QUENCHING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AMORPHOUS HOMOPOLYMERS; ATACTIC POLYPROPYLENES; MACROPHASE SEPARATION; SEMICRYSTALLLINE BLOCK; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; SYMMETRIC DIBLOCK ETHYLENE PROPYLENE COPOLYMERS;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 0030231180     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0032-3861(96)00296-0     Document Type: Article

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