Morphology, crystallization behavior, and dynamic mechanical properties of biodegradable poly(ε-caprolactone)/thermally reduced graphene nanocomposites

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 50, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 13885-13891

  Zhang, Jinbing ^a   Qiu, Zhaobin ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPROLACTONE; CRYSTALLIZATION BEHAVIOR; CRYSTALLIZATION MECHANISMS; DYNAMIC MECHANICAL PROPERTY; FINE DISPERSIONS; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; INTERFACIAL ADHESIONS; ISOTHERMAL MELT CRYSTALLIZATION; MATRIX; MELT CRYSTALLIZATION; NONISOTHERMAL; SOLUTION MIXING; SPHERULITIC MORPHOLOGY;

ADHESION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS; DISPERSIONS; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS; DYNAMICS; GRAPHENE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MORPHOLOGY; NANOCOMPOSITES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 83655172596     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie202132m     Document Type: Article

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