Effect of exo- and endothermic blowing and wetting agents on morphology, density and hardness of thermoplastic polyurethanes foams

Journal of Cellular Plastics

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 277-292

  Nema, Ajay K ^a   Deshmukh, Abhijit V ^a   Palanivelu, K ^a   Sharma, S K ^a   Malik, Tarun ^b  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF PLASTICS ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b Formerly Baver Material Science AG   (India)

Author keywords

Azodicarbonamide (ADC); Blowing agent (BA); Chemical blowing agents (CBA); Dioctyl phthalate (DOP); Exo and endothermic blowing agents; Thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPU); Wetting agent

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; ALKALI METALS; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DECOMPOSITION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; ERROR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MULTICARRIER MODULATION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PHOTORESISTS; POLYMERS; PYROLYSIS; REINFORCED PLASTICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SODIUM; STABILIZERS (AGENTS); SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS; WETTING;

AZODICARBONAMIDE (ADC); CELL STRUCTURING; DECOMPOSITION TEMPERATURES; DENSITY REDUCTION; HIGH QUALITY (HQ); MATE RIAL PROPERTIES; NEW APPLICATIONS; POLYURETHANE ELASTOMER (PUE); PROPERTY (S); SAGE PUBLICATIONS (CO); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE (SEM); SODIUM BICARBONATES; WETTING AGENTS;

BLOWING AGENTS;

EID: 46349097238     PISSN: 0021955X     EISSN: 15307999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021955X07088326     Document Type: Article

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