Fracture toughness of α- and β-phase polypropylene homopolymers and random- and block-copolymers

Polymer

Volumn 43, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 6505-6514

  Chen, H B ^a   Karger Kocsis, J ^b   Wu, J S ^a   Varga, J ^c  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b INSTITUT FÜR VERBUNDWERKSTOFFE GMBH   (Germany)

^c BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Polypropylene copolymers; Polypropylene; Polypropylene

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMERS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ETHYLENE; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY SCATTERING;

FLEXURAL TESTS;

POLYPROPYLENES;

COPOLYMER; ETHYLENE; POLYMER; POLYPROPYLENE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

BLOCK COPOLYMER; COPOLYMER; CRYSTALLINITY; FRACTURE; POLYPROPYLENE;

EID: 0037037555     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0032-3861(02)00590-6     Document Type: Article

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