Using copolymer mixtures to compatibilize immiscible homopolymer blends

Macromolecules

Volumn 29, Issue 23, 1996, Pages 7581-7587

  Lyatskaya, Yulia ^a   Balazs, Anna C ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; COPOLYMERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXTURES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SOLUBILITY; SURFACE TENSION;

IMMISCIBLE HOMOPOLYMERS; POLYDISPERSITY; SINGLE COMPONENT COMPATIBILIZERS;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 0030569111     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma960645c     Document Type: Article

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