Enhancement of mechanical properties of triblock copolymers by random copolymer middle blocks

European Polymer Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2750-2758

  Staudinger, Ulrike ^a,b   Satapathy, Bhabani K ^a   Thunga, Mahendra ^b   Weidisch, Roland ^a,b   Janke, Andreas ^b   Knoll, Konrad ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

^c BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mechanical properties; Miscibility; Molecular architecture; Morphology; Triblock copolymers

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE BEHAVIOR; SOLUBILITY;

BREAK VALUES; MOLECULAR ARCHITECTURE;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 34249825464     PISSN: 00143057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2007.03.022     Document Type: Article

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