Polypropylene foaming in a reactive process

Journal of Cellular Plastics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 445-458

  Frounchi, Masoud ^a   Sharif Pakdaman, Ali ^a   Mousavi, S A ^a   Dadbin, Susan ^b  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Foaming process.; MFI; Molecular branching; Polypropylene; TMPTMA

Indexed keywords

FOAMS; MONOMERS; VISCOSITY;

FOAMING PROCESS; MELT VISCOSITY; MOLECULAR BRANCHING;

POLYPROPYLENES;

EID: 36549063063     PISSN: 0021955X     EISSN: 15307999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021955X07079368     Document Type: Article

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