Confinement effects on chain and glass dynamics in immiscible polymer blends

Macromolecules

Volumn 42, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 7982-7985

  Liu, Chen Yang ^a   Zhang, Baoqing ^a   He, Jiasong ^a   Keunings, Roland ^b   Bailly, Christian ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY BLENDS; CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; DISPERSED DROPLETS; ENTANGLEMENT STATE; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; IMMISCIBLE BLENDS; IMMISCIBLE POLYMER BLENDS; INTERFACE STRUCTURES; LINEAR VISCOELASTIC; MATRIX; MODEL SYSTEM; PARALLEL PLATE GEOMETRY; POLYMER SYSTEMS; PURE POLYMERS; SHORT PROBE; TWO PHASIS; TWO-COMPONENT;

GLASS; GLASS TRANSITION; PHASE INTERFACES; POLYMERS;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 70449346438     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma901407f     Document Type: Article

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