Disentangled State in Polymer Melts; a Route to Ultimate Physical and Mechanical Properties

Macromolecular Materials and Engineering

Volumn 288, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 964-970

  Rastogi, Sanjay ^a   Kurelec, Lada ^a   Cuijpers, Juul ^a   Lippits, Dirk ^a   Wimmer, Markus ^a   Lemstra, Piet J ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Entanglements; Fatigue analysis; Polyethylene (PE); Prosthesis; Sintering

Indexed keywords

MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYETHYLENES; POLYMERIZATION; TOUGHNESS;

FATIGUE RESISTANCE;

MATERIALS SCIENCE;

POLYETHYLENE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CERAMICS; FLOW KINETICS; GAIT; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MELTING POINT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMERIZATION; SOLID STATE;

EID: 0346492805     PISSN: 14387492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mame.200300113     Document Type: Article

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