Scaling aspects of the kinetics of thermally induced phase separation in bisphenol a polycarbonate/poly(methyl methacrylate) blends

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 105, Issue 31, 2001, Pages 7499-7507

  Viville, Pascal ^a   Biscarini, F ^b   Bredas J L ^a,c   Lazzaroni, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOPOGRAPHIC DISCONTINUITIES;

ANNEALING; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DECOMPOSITION; DISPERSIONS; PHASE COMPOSITION; POLYCARBONATES; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THIN FILMS;

PHASE SEPARATION;

EID: 0035833798     PISSN: 10895647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp001286x     Document Type: Article

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