Highly transparent polypropylene cast films: Relationships between optical properties, additives, and surface structure

Polymer Engineering and Science

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1021-1032

  Resch, Katharina ^a   Wallner, Gernot M ^b   Teichert, Christian ^b   Gahleitner, Markus ^c  

^a POLYMER COMPETENCE CENTER LEOBEN GMBH   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^c BOREALIS POLYOLEFINE GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; HOMOPOLYMERIZATION; POLYPROPYLENES; SURFACE STRUCTURE; TRANSPARENCY;

ACID SCAVENGERS; ANTIBLOCKING AGENTS; METALLIC CHILL ROLLS; ROUGHNESS PARAMETERS;

POLYMER FILMS;

EID: 34547289045     PISSN: 00323888     EISSN: 15482634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pen.20781     Document Type: Article

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