Highly transparent thermoplastic elastomer from isotactic polypropylene and styrene/ethylene-butylene/styrene triblock copolymer: Structure-property correlations

Polymer Engineering and Science

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 331-341

  Ahmad, Zubair ^a   Kumar, K Dinesh ^a   Saroop, Madhumita ^b   Preschilla, Nisha ^b   Biswas, Amit ^b   Bellare, Jayesh R ^c   Bhowmick, Anil K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; POLYVINYL CHLORIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REINFORCED PLASTICS; SILICONES; STYRENE; THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS; TRANSPARENCY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

% REDUCTIONS; COPOLYMER STRUCTURE; CRISTALLINITY; ISOTACTIC POLYPROPYLENE; MELT-FLOW INDEX; STRUCTURE-PROPERTY CORRELATION; STYRENE BLOCK COPOLYMERS; STYRENE ETHYLENE BUTYLENE STYRENES; THERMOPLASTICS (ELASTOMERS); TRIBLOCK-COPOLYMERS;

POLYPROPYLENES;

EID: 77249113837     PISSN: 00323888     EISSN: 15482634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pen.21540     Document Type: Article

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