Rheological properties of amorphous and semicrystalline polylactic acid polymers

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 47-53

  Fang, Qi ^a   Hanna, Milford A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Non Newtonian fluid; Polylactic acid; Power law model; Shear viscosity

Indexed keywords

FERMENTATION; FLOW KINETICS; FOOD ANALYSIS; LACTIC ACID; POLYLACTIC ACID; STARCH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032971504     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6690(99)00009-6     Document Type: Article

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