Solution and melt viscoelastic properties of controlled microstructure poly(lactide)

Journal of Rheology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 987-1005

  Othman, Norhayani ^a,b   Acosta Ramírez, Alberto ^a   Mehrkhodavandi, Parisa ^a   Dorgan, John R ^c   Hatzikiriakos, Savvas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Extensional rheology; Light scattering; Living polymerization; Molecular weight; Poly(lactic acid); Poly(lactide); Shear rheology; Strain hardening

Indexed keywords

COIL DIMENSIONS; DINUCLEAR; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXTENSIONAL RHEOLOGY; INDIUM CATALYST; INTRINSIC VISCOSITY; LINEAR STRUCTURES; LINEAR VISCOELASTICITY; LOW TEMPERATURES; MELT BEHAVIOR; MOLAR MASS DISTRIBUTION; MOLECULAR RELAXATION; MONOMER RATIO; PLATEAU MODULI; POLY(LACTIC ACID); POLY(LACTIDE); POLYLACTIDES; POLYMERIZATION OF LACTIDE; RELAXATION SPECTRUM; RHEOLOGICAL PARAMETER; RHEOLOGICAL STUDIES; SHEAR RHEOLOGY; STRAININDUCED CRYSTALLIZATION; TETRA-HYDROFURAN; VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES; ZERO SHEAR VISCOSITY;

ELASTICITY; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; LACTIC ACID; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIVING POLYMERIZATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PLASTICITY; POLYMERS; REFRACTION; RHEOLOGY; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; STRAIN HARDENING; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOSITY;

STRAIN RATE;

EID: 80051661837     PISSN: 01486055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1122/1.3609853     Document Type: Article

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