Forced assembly and mixing of melts via planar polymer micro-mixing

Polymer

Volumn 51, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 3147-3155

  Moon, Doyoung ^a   Migler, Kalman B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forced assembly; Microfluidic; Mixer

Indexed keywords

MICROFLUIDICS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); POLYMER MELTS; RHEOMETERS;

BLEND PROPERTIES; COAXIAL CYLINDERS; FORCED ASSEMBLY; IMMISCIBLE POLYMER; MIXING TECHNOLOGY; MOLTEN POLYMERS; PLANAR POLYMERS; POLYMER PROCESSING;

MIXING;

FORCE; INTERFACIAL PROPERTY; MELT BLOWING; MIXING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLYMER BLEND; RHEOLOGY; TENSION;

EID: 77954815983     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2010.04.070     Document Type: Article

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