Carbon dioxide induced crystallization for toughening polypropylene

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 50, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 9632-9641

  Bao, Jin Biao ^a,b   Liu, Tao ^a   Zhao, Ling ^a   Hu, Guo Hua ^b,c  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL NETWORKS; DEGREE OF ORIENTATION; INDUCED CRYSTALLIZATION; ISOTACTIC POLY(PROPYLENE) (IPP); LOSS OF STRENGTH; MESOMORPHIC PHASE; NANO-SIZED; NOVEL PROCESS; ORIGINAL SAMPLE; POLARIZED OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SHEAR ZONE; SHISH-KEBABS; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; STRUCTURE AND MORPHOLOGY; STRUCTURE PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS; WIDE-ANGLE X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DIFFRACTION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; IMPACT STRENGTH; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; POLYPROPYLENES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TENSILE STRENGTH; THERMOPLASTICS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; X RAY SCATTERING;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

EID: 80051760357     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie200407p     Document Type: Article

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