Polymer blends in a contraction-expansion flow

Macromolecules

Volumn 39, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 7607-7616

  Clarke, Nigel ^a   De Luca, Edoardo ^a   Bent, Julian ^a   Buxton, Gavin ^a   Gough, Tim ^b   Grillo, Isabelle ^c   Hutchings, Lian R ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FLUID DYNAMICS; NEUTRON SCATTERING; NEWTONIAN FLOW; SHRINKAGE; THERMODYNAMICS;

CONCENTRATION FLUCTUATIONS; CORRELATION LENGTH; SLOT DIE;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 37849187638     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma0610966     Document Type: Article

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