Effect of polydispersity on the phase behavior of polymer blends

Macromolecular Rapid Communications

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 533-536

  Lo, Chieh Tsung ^a   Seifert, Soenke ^b   Thiyagarajan, Pappannan ^b   Narasimhan, Balaji ^a  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blends; Phase behavior; Polydispersity; Polyolefins; Small angle X ray scattering (SAXS)

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; NEUTRON SCATTERING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHASE DIAGRAMS; POLYOLEFINS; SOLUBILITY; X RAY SCATTERING;

BINODALS; PHASE BEHAVIOR; POLYDISPERSITY; SMALL-ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 20444474256     PISSN: 10221336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/marc.200400574     Document Type: Article

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