Morphological and fractal studies of polypropylene/poly(ethene-1-octene) blends during melt mixing using scanning electron microscopy

Polymer International

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 488-495

  Xu, Xinhua ^a   Zhu, Tianbing ^a   Zhu, Lin ^a   Song, Na ^a   Sheng, Jing ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fractal dimension; Pattern analysis; Phase morphology; PP POE blends; Scaling

Indexed keywords

FRACTAL DIMENSION; MIXING; MORPHOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SCALING LAWS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; MELT MIXING; PHASE DIMENSION;

POLYMER BLENDS;

FRACTAL DIMENSION; MIXING; MORPHOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POLYMER BLENDS; SCALING LAWS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

MORPHOLOGY; POLYETHYLENE; POLYMER BLEND; POLYPROPYLENE;

EID: 39549083902     PISSN: 09598103     EISSN: 10970126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pi.2368     Document Type: Article

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