Phase separation behaviour in blends of isotactic polypropylene and ethylene-propylene diene terpolymer

Polymer

Volumn 38, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 4433-4438

  Chen, C Y ^a   Yunus, W Md Z W ^a,b   Chiu, H W ^a   Kyu, T ^a  

^a The University of Akron   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Crystallization; iPP EPDM blends; LCST; Phase separation; Spinodal decomposition

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYETHYLENES; POLYPROPYLENES; SOLUBILITY;

DYNAMIC MECHANICAL METHOD; LOWER CRITICAL SOLUTION TEMPERATURE; POLYPROPYLENE DIENE;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 0031207288     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0032-3861(96)01039-7     Document Type: Article

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