Relationship between phase morphology, crystallization, and semicrystalline structure in immiscible polymer blends

Micro- and Nanostructured Multiphase Polymer Blend Systems: Phase Morphology and Interfaces

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 391-420

  Tol, R T ^a   Mathot, V B F ^a   Reynaers, H ^a   Groeninckx, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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