Effect of deuterium substitution on the physical properties of polymer melts and blends

Macromolecules

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4287-4293

  White, Ronald P ^a   Lipson, Jane E G ^a   Higgins, Julia S ^b  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT OF THERMAL EXPANSION; COEXISTENCE CURVE; ENERGETIC PARAMETERS; EQUATION OF STATE; LOW PRESSURES; MELT PROPERTIES; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYMERS; POLY(VINYL METHYL ETHER); POTENTIAL EFFECTS; PURE COMPONENTS; PVT PROPERTIES;

DEUTERIUM; EQUATIONS OF STATE; ETHERS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHASE STABILITY; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYMER MELTS; POLYSTYRENES; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

THERMAL EXPANSION;

EID: 77951897721     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma902707u     Document Type: Article

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