Theoretical and experimental study of foaming process with chain extended recycled PET

Express Polymer Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 84-96

  Coccorullo, I ^a   Di Maio, L ^a   Montesano, S ^a   Incarnato, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Industrial applications; Modeling and simulations; Processing technologies; Recycling

Indexed keywords

EID: 61849111634     PISSN: 1788618X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3144/expresspolymlett.2009.12     Document Type: Article

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