Improved toughness in HIPS obtained from different styrene/butadiene-graded block copolymers through modification of the polydispersity index of the PS block

Polymer Engineering and Science

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1333-1341

  Morales, Graciela ^a   De León, Ramón Díaz ^a   Acuña, Pablo ^a   Flores, Rodolfo Flores ^b   Robles, Antonio Montalvo ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN QUÍMICA APLICADA   (Mexico)

^b Dynasol Elastomeros   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTADIENE; COMPOSITION; POLYMERIZATION; POLYSTYRENES; STYRENE; TOUGHNESS;

GRADED BLOCK COPOLYMER; POLYBUTADIENE COMPOSITION; POLYDISPERSITY INDEX; POLYSTYRENE BLOCK;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 33749504499     PISSN: 00323888     EISSN: 15482634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pen.20591     Document Type: Article

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