Nucleation enhancement effect in poly(L-lactide) (PLLA)/poly(ε- caprolactone) (PCL) blend induced by locally activated chain mobility resulting from limited miscibility

Macromolecules

Volumn 42, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 8335-8342

  Sakai, Fuji ^a   Nishikawa, Kenichi ^a   Inoue, Yoshio ^a   Yazawa, Koji ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SITE; AGING PROCESS; AGING TEMPERATURES; AGING TIME; ASYMPTOTIC DENSITY; CAPROLACTONE; CHAIN MOBILITY; CRYSTALLIZATION BEHAVIOR; ENHANCEMENT EFFECTS; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; IMMISCIBLE BLENDS; LOW TEMPERATURES; NEAT POLYMER; NUCLEATION BEHAVIOR; NUCLEATION RATE; NUCLEI DENSITY; PLLA; POLY-L-LACTIDE;

GLASS TRANSITION; PHASE INTERFACES;

NUCLEATION;

EID: 70449441451     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma901547a     Document Type: Article

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