Liquid-liquid phase separation in a polyethylene blend monitored by crystallization kinetics and crystal-decorated phase morphologies

Polymer

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1025-1033

  Wang, Shujun ^a   Wu, Changjiang ^b   Ren, Min Qiao ^b   Van Horn, Ryan M ^a   Graham, Matthew J ^a   Han, Charles C ^c   Chen, Erqiang ^b   Cheng, Stephen Z D ^a  

^a University of Akron   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Crystallization; Liquid liquid phase separation; Polyolefin blends

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS; HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENES; ISOTHERMS; LINEAR LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENES; LIQUIDS; MELTING POINT; MORPHOLOGY; POLYMER BLENDS; SPINODAL DECOMPOSITION;

ANNEALING TEMPERATURES; CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURE; EQUILIBRIUM MELTING TEMPERATURE; EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE; HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE(HDPE); LIQUID-LIQUID PHASE SEPARATION; PHASE SEPARATED MORPHOLOGY; POLYOLEFIN BLENDS;

PHASE SEPARATION;

CRYSTALLIZATION; MELTING POINT; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEATION; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYETHYLENE; POLYMER BLEND; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 59049104695     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2008.12.028     Document Type: Article

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