Hydrolytic degradation of phase-segregated multiblock copoly(ester urethane)s containing weak links

Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 202, Issue 13, 2001, Pages 2702-2711

  Lendlein, Andreas ^a,b   Colussi, Martin ^a   Neuenschwander, Peter ^a   Suter, Ulrich W ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMER; GLYCOLIC ACID; POLY[(3 HYDROXYBUTYRATE) CO (3 HYDROXYVALERATE)]; POLYESTER; POLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URETHAN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BINDING; DEGRADATION; ELASTICITY; HYDROLYSIS; KINETICS; MASS; PH MEASUREMENT; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 0035909140     PISSN: 10221352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1521-3935(20010901)202:13<2702::AID-MACP2702>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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