Nanosilica addition dramatically improves the cell morphology and expansion ratio of polypropylene heterophasic copolymer foams blown in continuous extrusion

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 7282-7289

  Zhai, Wentao ^a,b   Park, Chul B ^b   Kontopoulou, Marianna ^c  

^a NINGBO INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DENSITY; CELL MORPHOLOGY; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTINUOUS EXTRUSION; DIE TEMPERATURES; EXPANSION RATIO; FOAM EXPANSION; FOAM PRODUCTION; FOAMING BEHAVIOR; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; HETEROPHASIC COPOLYMERS; HIGH CELL DENSITY; LINEAR STRUCTURES; MELT STRENGTH; NANO-SILICA; PHYSICAL BLOWING AGENTS; POLYMER RESINS; PP MATRIX; SILICA CONTENT; SILICA PARTICLES; TECHNICAL PROBLEM; UNIFORM CELL STRUCTURES; WELL-DISPERSED;

AGGLOMERATION; BLOWING AGENTS; CARBON DIOXIDE; COPOLYMERIZATION; COPOLYMERS; COUPLING AGENTS; DIES; EXPANSION; MORPHOLOGY; NANOCOMPOSITES; NUCLEATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICA; THERMOPLASTICS;

CELLS;

EID: 79958790159     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie102438p     Document Type: Article

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