Morphology estimation from normal stress measurements for dilute immiscible polymer blends

Rheologica Acta

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 158-165

  Minale, Mario ^a   Maffettone, Pier Luca ^b  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blends; Morphology prediction; Shear flow; Stress; Theory and experiments

Indexed keywords

IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MORPHOLOGY; POLYMER; STRESS CONCENTRATION FACTOR;

EID: 0037283481     PISSN: 00354511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00397-002-0267-6     Document Type: Article

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