New thermoplastic vulcanizate, composed of polypropylene and ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer crosslinked by tetrapropoxysilane: Evolution of the blend morphology with respect to the crosslinking reaction conversion

Polymer International

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 523-535

  Verbois, Agnès ^a   Cassagnau, Philippe ^a   Michel, Alain ^a   Guillet, Jacques ^b   Raveyre, Claude ^b  

^a Laboratoire des Materiaux Polymeres et des Biomateriaux UMR 5627   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

Author keywords

Dynamic grosslinking; Ester alkoxysilane exchange; Thermoplastic vulcanizate

Indexed keywords

CROSSLINKING; ELASTOMERS; EXTRUSION; RUBBER; SWELLING; VULCANIZATION;

REACTIVE EXTRUSION; VULCANIZED RUBBERS;

THERMOPLASTICS;

POLYMER SCIENCE;

EID: 2142818214     PISSN: 09598103     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pi.1428     Document Type: Article

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