Engineering orientation in block copolymers for application to prosthetic heart valves

Functional Materials Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 249-252

  Stasiak, Joanna ^a   Moggridge, Geoff D ^a   Zaffora, Adriano ^b   Pandolfi, Anna ^b   Costantino, Maria L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Block copolymers; mechanical properties; microstructure; uniaxial and biaxial orientation

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; BIAXIAL ORIENTATION; ENGINEERING ORIENTATION; LONG RANGE; MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE; MECHANICAL RESPONSE; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; PHASE ORIENTATION; POLYMERIC MATERIAL; PROSTHETIC HEART VALVE;

ANISOTROPY; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; BUTADIENE; COPOLYMERIZATION; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); MICROSTRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; PROSTHETICS; STYRENE; VALVES (MECHANICAL);

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 79952949324     PISSN: 17936047     EISSN: 17937213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S1793604710001342     Document Type: Article

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