Rotational Foam Molding of Polypropylene with Control of Melt Strength

Advances in Polymer Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 280-296

  Pop Iliev, Remon ^a   Liu, Fangyi ^b   Liu, Guobin ^b   Park, Chul B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blowing agents; Cell coalescence; Polypropylene; Rotational molding; Sintering

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; BLOWING AGENTS; COALESCENCE; DECOMPOSITION; ELASTICITY; POLYPROPYLENES;

MELT STRENGTH;

PLASTICS MOLDING;

EID: 0242581691     PISSN: 07306679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adv.10056     Document Type: Article

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