Predictions of the thermodynamic properties of multicomponent polyolefin blends from measurements on two-component systems

Macromolecules

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 3328-3339

  Jeon, H S ^a   Lee, J H ^a   Balsara, N P ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NEUTRON SCATTERING; ORDER DISORDER TRANSITIONS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; POLYETHYLENES; POLYPROPYLENES;

FLORY-HUGGINS INTERACTION PARAMETER; RANDOM PHASE APPROXIMATION;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 0032070521     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma9709718     Document Type: Article

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