Polymer blending technology in foam processing

Thermoplastic Foam Processing: Principles and Development

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 105-140

  Champagne, Michel F ^a   Gendron, Richard ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

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