Long time stress relaxation of a triblock copolymer with asymmetric composition

Rheologica Acta

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 33-41

  Mandare, Prashant ^a   Horst, Roland ^b   Winter, H Henning ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^b Tyco Adhesives   (United States)

Author keywords

Equilibrium modulus; Microphase separation; Stress relaxation; Triblock copolymer

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMER;

EID: 26444536302     PISSN: 00354511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00397-005-0447-2     Document Type: Article

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