Design and properties of co-continuous nanostructured polymers by reactive blending

Nature Materials

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 54-58

  Pernot, Helene ^a   Baumert, Martin ^b   Court, François ^b   Leibler, Ludwik ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b ARKEMA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MELTING; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POLYMER BLENDS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

REACTIVE BLENDING;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0042213198     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat711     Document Type: Article

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