Quantitative evaluation of fractionated and homogeneous nucleation of polydisperse distributions of water-dispersed maleic anhydride-grafted-polypropylene micro- and nano-sized droplets

Polymer

Volumn 50, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 4584-4595

  Ibarretxe, J ^a,b   Groeninckx, G ^b   Bremer, L ^a   Mathot, V B F ^a,b  

^a DSM RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Homogeneous nucleation; Nucleation kinetics; Polypropylene

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; DISPERSIONS; DROP FORMATION; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MALEIC ANHYDRIDE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; POLYPROPYLENES; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURE; FRACTIONATED CRYSTALLIZATION; HETEROGENEOUS CRYSTALLIZATION; HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION; MALEIC ANHYDRIDE GRAFTED POLYPROPYLENE; NUCLEATION KINETICS; POLYMER CRYSTALLIZATION; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION;

NUCLEATION;

CRYSTALLIZATION; DISPERSION; NUCLEATION; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMER; POLYPROPYLENE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER;

EID: 69249118300     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2009.06.067     Document Type: Article

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