Rheology of LLDPE, LDPE and LLDPE/LDPE blends and its relevance to the film blowing process

Polymer International

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1580-1589

  Micic, Predrag ^a,b   Bhattacharya, Sati N ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Qenos Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOW MOLDING; COMPOSITION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; POLYMER BLENDS; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

ELONGATIONAL VISCOSITY; FILM BLOWING; SHEAR VISCOSITY;

LINEAR LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENES;

POLYETHYLENE; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0034351051     PISSN: 09598103     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0126(200012)49:12<1580::AID-PI547>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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