Degradation of high barrier ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer under mild thermal-oxidative conditions studied by thermal analysis and infrared spectroscopy

Polymer International

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 635-642

  Lagaron, José M ^a   Giménez, Enrique ^a   Saura, Juan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymers; Infrared spectroscopy; Thermal analysis; Thermal oxidative degradation

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINITY; DEGRADATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ETHYLENE; GLASS TRANSITION; HYDROGEN BONDS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MELTING POINT; NANOCOMPOSITES; POLYMER BLENDS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; ALCOHOLS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MELTING;

DEGRADATION KINETICS; ETHYLENE-VINYL ALCOHOL COPOLYMER; FTIR MEASUREMENTS; HYDROGEN-BONDING STRENGTH; INTERMOLECULAR COHESIONS; OXIDATIVE CONDITIONS; OXIDATIVE TREATMENT; THERMAL OXIDATIVE DEGRADATION;

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; COPOLYMERS;

WEIGHT LOSSES;

COPOLYMER; DEGRADATION; OXIDATION; POLYETHYLENE; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035368310     PISSN: 09598103     EISSN: 10970126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pi.674     Document Type: Article

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