Effect of bimodality on the adhesive properties of pressure sensitive adhesives: Role of bimodal particle size and molecular weight distributions

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 7303-7312

  Fonseca, Gabriela E ^a   McKenna, Timothy F L ^b   Dubé, Marc A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVE PROPERTIES; BIMODAL DISTRIBUTION; BIMODAL MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; BIMODAL PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION; BIMODAL PARTICLES; CROSS-LINKING DENSITY; IN-SITU; LOSS MODULI; MINI-EMULSION POLYMERIZATION; MONOMODAL; MONOMODAL DISTRIBUTION; ONE POT; PEEL STRENGTH; POST-POLYMERIZATION; PRESSURE SENSITIVE ADHESIVES; SHEAR STORAGE; VISCOELASTIC ANALYSIS; VISCOELASTIC BEHAVIORS;

BLENDING; PARTICLE SIZE; PEELING; POLYETHYLENES; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SHEAR STRENGTH;

MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77955637999     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie100204x     Document Type: Article

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