Recycled and restabilized HDPE bottle crates: Retention of critical properties after heat aging

Polymer Engineering and Science

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 771-781

  Kartalis, C N ^a   Papaspyrides, C D ^b   Pfaendner, R ^a   Hoffmann, K ^b   Herbst, H ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Ciba Lampertheim GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; EMBRITTLEMENT; HEAT TREATMENT; MELTING; PACKAGING; PIGMENTS; RECYCLING; REMELTING; TENSILE STRENGTH; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

MICROPHOTOGRAPHS;

HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENES;

HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE; PACKAGING MATERIALS;

EID: 0035332980     PISSN: 00323888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pen.10774     Document Type: Article

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