Effects of catalyst and polymerization temperature on the in-situ polymerization of cyclic poly(butylene terephthalate) oligomers for composite applications

Macromolecules

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 709-715

  Tripathy, Amiya R ^a   Elmoumni, Aadil ^b   Winter, H Henning ^a,b   MacKnight, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINITY; CYCLIC POLY(BUTYLENE TEREPHTHALATE) (C-PBT); IN-SITU POLYMERIZATION; POLYDISPERSITY;

ANISOTROPY; CATALYSTS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DUCTILITY; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORPHOLOGY; POLYESTERS; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMERS; VECTORS; VOLUME FRACTION;

OLIGOMERS;

EID: 13444269592     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma0483874     Document Type: Article

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