Phase behavior and its viscoelastic response of polylactide/poly(ε-caprolactone) blend

European Polymer Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2171-2183

  Wu, Defeng ^a   Zhang, Yisheng ^a   Zhang, Ming ^a   Zhou, Weidong ^a  

^a YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Blend; Morphology; Polycaprolactone; Polylactide; Rheology

Indexed keywords

COBALT; CONCRETE PAVEMENTS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; FERROMAGNETISM; HYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC BUBBLES; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETISM; MIXING; MORPHOLOGY; SCANNING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); VISCOSITY;

BLEND RATIOS; CAPROLACTONE (PCL); CO CONTINUOUS STRUCTURE; DISCRETE PHASE; DOMAIN STRUCTURES; ELSEVIER (CO); LINEAR VISCOELASTIC (LVE); MELT MIXING; NON-LINEAR; PALIERNE MODEL; PHASE INVERSION; POLYCAPROLACTONE (PCLPU); POLYLACTIDE (PLLA); RHEOLOGICAL DATA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE (SEM); SPHERICAL DROPLETS; SPHERICAL(PIVOT); STEADY-SHEAR FLOW; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCES; TIME-TEMPERATURE SUPERPOSITION (TTSP); VISCO-ELASTIC PROPERTIES; VISCOELASTIC BEHAVIORS; VISCOELASTIC RESPONSE; VISCOSITY RATIOS;

PHASE BEHAVIOR;

COBALT; CONCRETE; DROPS; ELASTICITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; HYDRODYNAMICS; LITHOGRAPHY; MIXING; PAVEMENTS; RHEOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHEAR FLOW; TEMPERATURE; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 47049090814     PISSN: 00143057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2008.04.023     Document Type: Article

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