Toughness and fracture energy of PDMS bimodal and trimodal networks with widely separated precursor molar masses

Polymer

Volumn 51, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 4152-4159

  Genesky, Geoffrey D ^a   Cohen, Claude ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bimodal networks; Enhanced toughness; Trimodal networks

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; FRACTURE; FRACTURE ENERGY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MICROCHANNELS; MOLAR MASS;

AVERAGE MOLAR MASS; HIGH STRAINS; LARGE ELONGATION; LONG CHAINS; MULTIMODAL NETWORK; OVERLAP CONCENTRATION; PRECURSOR CHAINS; UNIAXIAL EXTENSION;

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS;

ELASTIC PROPERTY; ELASTOMER; FRACTURE; PHASE SEPARATION; PRECURSOR; STRAIN; STRETCH; TOUGHNESS;

EID: 77955555079     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2010.06.054     Document Type: Article

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