Increase of open-cell content by plasticizing soft regions with secondary blowing agent

Polymer Engineering and Science

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1445-1451

  Lee, Patrick C ^a   Naguib, Hani E ^a   Park, Chul B ^a   Wang, Jin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTANE; POLYETHYLENES; POLYSTYRENES; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CELL-POPULATION DENSITY; LOW-DENSITY POLYETHYLENE (LDPE); VOLUME EXPANSION RATIO;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 27844543814     PISSN: 00323888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pen.20422     Document Type: Article

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