Blend miscibility and the Flory-Huggins interaction parameter: A critical examination

Macromolecules

Volumn 39, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 4860-4868

  Tambasco, Michael ^a   Lipson, J E G ^a   Higgins, Julia S ^b  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY POLYMER MIXTURES; BLEND MISCIBILITY; CLOUD POINT CURVES; FLORY-HUGGINS INTERACTION;

NEUTRON SCATTERING; POLYSTYRENES; SOLUBILITY; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 33746305302     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma060304r     Document Type: Article

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