Two-step surface modification of chemically resistant polymers: Blend formation and subsequent chemistry

Macromolecules

Volumn 31, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 4791-4797

  Rajagopalan, Padmavathy ^a   McCarthy, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; CONTACT ANGLE; FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; INTERPENETRATING POLYMER NETWORKS; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYSTYRENES; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENES; STYRENE; SURFACE STRUCTURE; SURFACE TREATMENT; WETTING; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CHEMICALLY RESISTANT POLYMERS; POLYCHLOROTRIFLUOROETHYLENE; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE HEXAFLUOROPROPYLENE; WETTABILITY;

FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS;

EID: 0032120934     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma9718816     Document Type: Article

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