The role of interfaces and phase morphology on mechanical properties of multiphase: Copolymer systems

Micro- and Nanostructured Multiphase Polymer Blend Systems: Phase Morphology and Interfaces

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 165-206

  Weidisch, Roland ^a   Stamm, Manfred ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

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