Electron-induced reactive processing of thermoplastic vulcanizate based on polypropylene and ethylene propylene diene terpolymer rubber

Polymer Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 439-448

  Thakur, Varun ^a   Gohs, Uwe ^a   Wagenknecht, Udo ^a   Heinrich, Gert ^a,b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

absorbed dose; blend ratio; electron energy; high energy electrons; premixing time; thermoplastic vulcanizate

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED DOSE; BLEND RATIOS; ELECTRON ENERGIES; HIGH-ENERGY ELECTRON; PREMIXING; THERMOPLASTIC VULCANIZATES;

DISSOCIATION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRONS; ETHYLENE; LINGUISTICS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MIXING; MORPHOLOGY; POLYPROPYLENES; PROPYLENE; RUBBER;

REINFORCED PLASTICS;

EID: 84860730088     PISSN: 00323896     EISSN: 13490540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/pj.2012.3     Document Type: Article

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