Shear and extensional rheology of sparsely branched metallocene-catalyzed polyethylenes

Journal of Rheology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1151-1167

  Bin Wadud, Sujan E ^a   Baird, Donald G ^a  

^a Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CARBON; CATALYSIS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; POLYETHYLENES; SHEAR DEFORMATION; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; STRAIN HARDENING; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

LONG CHAIN BRANCHING; MELT FLOW INDEX; METALLOCENE CATALYZED POLYETHYLENES; ZERO SHEAR VISCOSITIES;

RHEOLOGY;

EID: 0034265121     PISSN: 01486055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1122/1.1289280     Document Type: Article

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