Simultaneous small-angle X-ray scattering/wide-angle X-ray diffraction study of the microdomain structure of polyurethane elastomers during mechanical deformation

Polymer Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 692-699

  Kojio, Ken ^a   Matsuo, Keisuke ^a   Motokucho, Suguru ^a   Yoshinaga, Kohji ^a   Shimodaira, Yoshiki ^b   Kimura, Kazuya ^b  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b High Performance Materials Department   (Japan)

Author keywords

mechanical deformation; microdomain structure; polyurethane elastomer

Indexed keywords

1 ,4-BUTANEDIOL; CROSS LINKING AGENTS; CURING TEMPERATURE; DEFORMATION BEHAVIOR; DEFORMATION PROCESS; DIPHENYLMETHANE DIISOCYANATE; FAILURE STRAIN; FOUR-POINT; INTER-DOMAIN; MECHANICAL DEFORMATION; MICRO-DOMAIN STRUCTURES; POLY(OXYTETRAMETHYLENE) GLYCOL; POLYURETHANE ELASTOMER; POLYURETHANE ELASTOMERS; PREPOLYMER METHOD; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; SOFT SEGMENTS; STRAININDUCED CRYSTALLIZATION; WIDE-ANGLE X-RAY DIFFRACTION; X-RAY DIFFRACTION STUDIES;

CURING; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DIFFRACTION; ELASTOMERS; GLYCOLS; PLASTICS; PROPANE; SCATTERING; SPHERES; STRAIN; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY SCATTERING;

DEFORMATION;

EID: 80051539727     PISSN: 00323896     EISSN: 13490540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/pj.2011.48     Document Type: Article

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