Examination of the long-lived, oxygen-induced radicals in irradiated ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 265, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 67-71

  Shah, Jahan M ^a   Fuzail, M ^b  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

^b PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Gamma irradiation; Long lived radicals; Oxygen centered polyenyl radicals; UHMWPE

Indexed keywords

IRRADIATION; MICROWAVES; OXYGEN; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTONS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

CRYSTALLINE SURFACE; LONG-LIVED RADICALS; MICROWAVE SATURATION TECHNIQUE; OXYGEN-CENTERED POLYENYL RADICALS; OXYGEN-INDUCED RADICALS (OIR);

ULTRAHIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENES;

EID: 36049036205     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2007.08.027     Document Type: Article

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