Liquid-liquid phase separation and crystallization in thin films of a polyolefin blend

Macromolecules

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2311-2314

  Hong, Song ^a,b   Zhang, Xiaohua ^a   Zhang, Ruoyu ^a,b   Wang, Li ^a   Zhao, Jiang ^a   Han, Charles C ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYMER BLENDS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THIN FILMS;

DYNAMIC SCALING; POLYOLEFIN BLENDS;

POLYOLEFINS;

EID: 42449133743     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma7025379     Document Type: Article

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