Structure and morphology changes in absorbable poly(glycolide) and poly(glycolide-co-lactide) during in vitro degradation

Macromolecules

Volumn 32, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 8107-8114

  Zong, Xin Hua ^a   Wang, Zhi Gang ^a   Hsiao, Benjamin S ^a   Chu, Benjamin ^a   Zhou, Jack J ^b   Jamiolkowski, Dennis D ^b   Muse, Eugene ^b   Dormier, Edward ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNSON AND JOHNSON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEGRADATION; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORPHOLOGY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; X RAY SCATTERING;

POLYDISPERSITY; POLYGLYCOLIDE; SMALL ANGLE X RAY SCATTERING; WIDE ANGLE X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 0033318565     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma990630p     Document Type: Article

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