Crystallization kinetics of polypropylene/ethylene-octene copolymer blends

Polymer Testing

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 215-222

  Svoboda, Petr ^a   Svobodova, Dagmar ^a   Slobodian, Petr ^a   Ougizawa, Toshiaki ^b   Inoue, Takashi ^c  

^a TOMAS BATA UNIVERSITY IN ZLIN   (Czech Republic)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crystallization; Ethylene octene copolymer; Phase morphology; Polypropylene

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC POLYMERS; COPOLYMERIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ETHYLENE; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; POLYMERS; THERMOPLASTICS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

COPOLYMER BLENDS; CRYSTALLIZATION GROWTHS; ETHYLENE-OCTENE COPOLYMER; LARGE PARTICLES; PHASE MORPHOLOGY;

CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS;

EID: 60649113195     PISSN: 01429418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymertesting.2008.12.007     Document Type: Article

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