Effect of tacticity on the molecular dynamics of polypropylene melts

Macromolecules

Volumn 32, Issue 25, 1999, Pages 8635-8644

  Antoniadis, Stelios J ^a   Samara, Christina T ^a   Theodorou, Doros N ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; CONFORMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLTEN MATERIALS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; X RAY SCATTERING;

TACTICITY;

POLYPROPYLENES;

EID: 0033309767     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma990888f     Document Type: Article

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