Features of the hedritic morphology of β-isotactic polypropylene studied by atomic force microscopy

Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 672-681

  Haeringen, Dorina Trifonova Van ^a   Varga, Jozsef ^b   Ehrenstein, Gottfried W ^b   Vancso, G Julius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL GROWTH FROM MELT; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); ETCHING; MORPHOLOGY;

HEDRITES;

POLYPROPYLENES;

EID: 0033882743     PISSN: 08876266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0488(20000301)38:5<672::AID-POLB4>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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