Crystalline organization and toughening: Example of polyamide-12

Polymer

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2748-2757

  Corté, Laurent ^a   Beaume, François ^b   Leibler, Ludwik ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b ARKEMA   (France)

Author keywords

Polyamide; Semi crystalline polymers; Toughening

Indexed keywords

BRITTLENESS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; ELASTIC MODULI; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; IMPACT RESISTANCE; INORGANIC POLYMERS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; RUBBER; TOUGHENING;

CRYSTALLINE ORGANIZATION; INORGANIC PARTICLES; MOLECULAR ORGANIZATION; SEMICRYSTALLINE POLYMERS;

POLYAMIDEIMIDES;

PLASTIC; POLYAMIDE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; MICROSCOPY;

SYNTHETIC POLYAMIDE;

EID: 14844341531     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2005.01.040     Document Type: Article

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