Measuring the relative interface thickness of multilayer polyolefin films with atomic force microscopy

Journal of Applied Polymer Science

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1507-1517

  Paradkar, Rajesh P ^a   Li, Jing ^a   Bar, Georg ^a   Pham, Hoang ^a   Bosnyak, Clive ^a,b   Weinhold, Jeffrey ^a  

^a DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

^b Creative Polymers LLC

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy (AFM); Blends; Interfaces; Polyolefins

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; FILM THICKNESS; INJECTION MOLDING; MULTILAYER FILMS; POLYMER BLENDS; STIFFNESS; TOUGHNESS;

BLEND COMPONENTS; DESIGN BLEND COMBINATIONS; INTERFACE THICKNESS; TAPPING MODE;

POLYOLEFINS;

COPOLYMER; FILM; INJECTION MOLDING; MICROSCOPY; POLYMER BLEND; POLYOLEFIN; SOLUBILITY; TOUGHNESS;

EID: 34948843042     PISSN: 00218995     EISSN: 10974628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/app.26550     Document Type: Article

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