Formation of entanglements in initially disentangled polymer melts

Macromolecules

Volumn 39, Issue 26, 2006, Pages 8882-8885

  Lippits, Dirk R ^a,b   Rastogi, Sanjay ^a,c   Talebi, Saeid ^a   Bailly, Christian ^a,d  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DSM RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; SINGLE CRYSTALS; STRESS RELAXATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

DISENTANGLED CHAINS; LINEAR POLYMERS; POLYMER MELTS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 33846242504     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma062284z     Document Type: Review

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