Prediction of frozen-in birefringence in oriented glassy polymers using a molecularly aware constitutive model allowing for finite molecular extensibility

Macromolecules

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3085-3095

  De Focatiis, Davide S A ^a,b   Buckley, C Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; GLASSY POLYMERS; GLASSY POLYSTYRENE; MONODISPERSE; POLYMER GLASS; POLYMER MELT RHEOLOGY;

BIREFRINGENCE; CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYMER MELTS; POLYSTYRENES;

MOLECULAR ORIENTATION;

EID: 79955047671     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma102906z     Document Type: Article

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