Decoding the viscoelastic response of polydisperse star/linear polymer blends

Journal of Rheology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 507-538

  Van Ruymbeke, Evelyne ^a,b   Coppola, Salvatore ^c   Balacca, Letizia ^d   Righi, Sandra ^c   Vlassopoulos, Dimitris ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b Department of Materials Science and Technology ^*  (Greece)

^c Centro Ricerche Elastomeri   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blend; Linear polymer; Linear viscoelasticity; Polydispersity; Star polymer; Tube model

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DATA; LINEAR POLYMER; LINEAR POLYMERS; LINEAR VISCOELASTIC BEHAVIORS; LINEAR VISCOELASTICITY; MODEL PREDICTION; MOLAR MASS DISTRIBUTION; POLYDISPERSES; RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY; STAR POLYMERS; TIME-MARCHING ALGORITHMS; TUBE MODEL; VISCOELASTIC BEHAVIORS; VISCOELASTIC RESPONSE;

ELASTICITY; POLYDISPERSITY; RHEOLOGY; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOSITY;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 77952858842     PISSN: 01486055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1122/1.3368729     Document Type: Article

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