Determination of chemical homogeneity of fire retardant polymeric nanocomposite materials by near-infrared multispectral imaging microscopy

Analytical Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 10-11, 2010, Pages 1780-1789

  Duri, Simon ^a   Majoni, Stephen ^a   Hossenlopp, Jeanne M ^a   Tran, Chieu D ^a  

^a Marquette University   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical homogeneity; Fire retardant; Imaging; Nanocomposite materials; Near infrared; Polymer; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954847295     PISSN: 00032719     EISSN: 1532236X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00032711003653882     Document Type: Article

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