Environmental stress-cracking resistance of LDPE/EVA blends

Macromolecular Materials and Engineering

Volumn 288, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 509-515

  Borisova, Bistra ^a   Kressler, Jörg ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blends; Environmental stress cracking resistance (ESCR); Ethylene vinyl acetate copolymers; Low density polyethylene (LDPE)

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMERS; CRACK PROPAGATION; LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENES; STRESS ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

STRESS-CRACKING AGENTS;

POLYMER BLENDS;

COPOLYMER; ETHYLENE; VINYL ACETATE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; PHASE TRANSITION; SAMPLING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRESS; SURFACE PROPERTY; THICKNESS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0037626971     PISSN: 14387492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mame.200390048     Document Type: Article

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