Thickness dependence of liquid-liquid phase separation in thin films of a polyolefin blend

Macromolecules

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4349-4351

  Hong, Song ^a,b   Zhang, Xiaohua ^a   Zhang, Ruoyu ^a,b   Zhao, Jiang ^a   Han, Charles C ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFM; BLEND FILMS; BLEND THIN FILMS; CROSS SECTION; GAS FLOWS; LIQUID-LIQUID PHASE SEPARATION; MASS FRACTION; PIRANHA SOLUTIONS; POLY(ETHYLENE-CO-BUTENE); POLYOLEFIN BLENDS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY IMAGE; SILICON SUBSTRATES; STATISTICAL COPOLYMERS; THICKNESS DEPENDENCE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BUTENES; DEIONIZED WATER; ETHYLENE; GAS PERMEABLE MEMBRANES; HOT PRESSING; HYDROCARBONS; LIQUIDS; PHASE MODULATION; PHASE SEPARATION; PIPE FLOW; POLYETHYLENES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON WAFERS; THIN FILMS;

FILM PREPARATION;

EID: 67649223425     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma802676f     Document Type: Article

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