Thermal degradation of star-shaped poly(ε-caprolactone)

Polymer Degradation and Stability

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1040-1046

  Xie, Wenyuan ^a,b   Gan, Zhihua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Molecular weight; Multi armed structure; Pyrolytic products; Star shaped poly( caprolactone); Thermal degradation

Indexed keywords

ARM NUMBER; CAPROLACTONE; ESTER BONDS; HEATING PROCESS; MULTI-ARMED STRUCTURE; MULTI-ARMED STRUCTURES; PROCESSABILITY; PYROLYTIC PRODUCTS; TGA-FTIR; THERMAL ANALYSIS; THERMAL DEGRADATION; THERMAL DEGRADATIONS; THERMAL STABILITY; TWO STAGE; WEIGHT LOSS;

DEGRADATION; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OLEFINS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; WEIGHING;

THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 67349151655     PISSN: 01413910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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