Effect of pressure on the phase behavior and segmental dynamics in blends of polystyrene with poly(methylphenyl siloxane)

Macromolecules

Volumn 42, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 5709-5716

  Gitsas, Antonis ^a,b   Floudas, George ^a,b   White, Ronald P ^c   Lipson, Jane E G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL TEMPERATURES; DYNAMIC PROCESS; EFFECT OF PRESSURE; EQUATION OF STATE; HIGH-T; MOBILE COMPONENTS; MODEL CALCULATIONS; PHASE STATE; PRESSURE SENSITIVITIES; SEGMENTAL DYNAMICS; SEGMENTAL RELAXATION; SYMMETRIC BLENDS;

EQUATIONS OF STATE; GLASS TRANSITION; PHASE DIAGRAMS; POLYSTYRENES; SPINODAL DECOMPOSITION; TEMPERATURE;

PRESSURE EFFECTS;

EID: 68549104422     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma900831h     Document Type: Article

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