The effect of dispersed elastomer particle size on heterogeneous nucleation of TPO with N2 foaming

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 66, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 3675-3686

  Kim, Seong G ^a   Leung, Siu N ^a   Park, Chul B ^a   Sain, Mohini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bubble; Foam; Mixing; Nucleation; Thermoplastic polyolefin (TPO); Viscosity ratio

Indexed keywords

BATCH FOAMING; BLEND MORPHOLOGY; BUBBLE; DISPERSED PARTICLE; ELASTOMER PARTICLES; ELASTOMERIC MODIFIERS; EXTRUSION FOAMING PROCESS; FOAM STRUCTURE; FOAMABILITY; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; IMMISCIBLE POLYMER BLENDS; NUCLEATING AGENTS; NUCLEATION BEHAVIOR; NUMBER DENSITY; SIMPLE METHOD; THERMOPLASTIC POLYOLEFIN (TPO); THERMOPLASTIC POLYOLEFINS; VISCOSITY RATIO; VISCOSITY RATIOS;

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; BLENDING; ELASTOMERS; IMPACT STRENGTH; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEATION; POLYPROPYLENES; REINFORCED PLASTICS; VISCOSITY;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 79958731013     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.05.003     Document Type: Article

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