Synthesis, characterization, and electrospinning of architecturally- discrete isotactic-atactic-isotactic triblock stereoblock polypropene elastomers

Macromolecules

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 471-482

  Giller, Carl ^a   Gururajan, Giriprasath ^a   Wei, Jia ^b   Zhang, Wei ^b   Hwang, Wonseok ^b   Chase, D Bruce ^a   Rabolt, John F ^a   Sita, Lawrence R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFM; ATACTIC; BLOCK LENGTHS; BULK SAMPLES; CRYSTALLINITIES; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROSPUN FIBERS; FEATURE SIZES; FT-RAMAN; HIGHER-DEGREE; ISOTACTICS; MICROMETER LENGTHS; PRODUCT APPLICATIONS; SEM; SOLVENT CAST FILMS; STEREOBLOCK POLYPROPENE; STRUCTURAL FORM; SYNCHROTRON X RAY DIFFRACTION; TRIBLOCKS;

ELECTROSPINNING; PLASTICS; POLYDISPERSITY; TENSILE TESTING; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS;

EID: 79952167570     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma102134y     Document Type: Article

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