Characterizing interface shape evolution in immiscible polymer blends via 3D image analysis

Langmuir

Volumn 25, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 9392-9404

  Lopez Barron, Carlos R ^a   Macosko, Christopher W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D IMAGE ANALYSIS; ACRYLONITRILE COPOLYMER; CO-ORDINATE TRANSFORMATION; COMPOSITE MICROSTRUCTURES; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; DYNAMIC SCALING; GAUSSIANS; IMMISCIBLE POLYMER BLENDS; INTERFACE SHAPE; LATE STAGE; LOCAL CURVATURE; NONSYMMETRIC; PARAMETRIZATIONS; PER UNIT VOLUME; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; QUADRATIC POLYNOMIAL; SURFACE EVOLUTION; SYMMETRIC BLENDS; TIME EVOLUTIONS; TIME-DEPENDENT CHARACTERISTICS; TOPOLOGY EVOLUTION; TWO-REGIME;

COARSENING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LABELS; PHASE INTERFACES; POLYSTYRENES; SPINODAL DECOMPOSITION; STYRENE; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOPOLOGY;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 68649095689     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la803450y     Document Type: Article

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