Phase morphology of iPP/aPS/SEP blends

European Polymer Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1433-1443

  Smit I ^a   Radonjic G ^b   Hlavata D ^c  

^a RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^c INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Morphology; Polymer blends; Polypropylene; Polystyrene; SEP diblock copolymer

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; POLYPROPYLENES; POLYSTYRENES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; X RAY SCATTERING;

PHASE MORPHOLOGY; SEP DIBLOCK COPOLYMERS; SPHERULITES; STYRENE-B-ETHYLENE-CO-PROPYLENE (SEP);

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 17944391227     PISSN: 00143057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2004.02.002     Document Type: Article

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