Coarsening in molten quiescent polymer blends: The role of the initial morphology

Polymer Engineering and Science

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1717-1725

  Willemse, R C ^a   Ramaker, E J J ^a   Van Dam, J ^a   Posthuma De Boer, A ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; MOLTEN MATERIALS; MORPHOLOGY; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VOLUME FRACTION;

FORTELNY THEORY; ZIVNY THEORY;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 0032670054     PISSN: 00323888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pen.11566     Document Type: Article

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