Effect of phase arrangement on solid state mechanical and thermal properties of polyamide 6/polylactide based co-polyester blends

Journal of Macromolecular Science, Part B: Physics

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 982-1001

  Sedlarik, Vladimir ^a   Otgonzul, Onon ^a   Kitano, Takeshi ^a   Gregorova, Adriana ^b   Hrabalova, Marta ^c   Junkar, Ita ^d   Cvelbar, Uros ^d   Mozetic, Miran ^d   Saha, Petr ^a  

^a TOMAS BATA UNIVERSITY IN ZLIN   (Czech Republic)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^d JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

mechanical properties; polyamide 6; polylactide; polymer blend; thermal properties

Indexed keywords

BINARY BLENDS; BIOFLEX; CO-CONTINUOUS MORPHOLOGY; CO-CONTINUOUS STRUCTURE; COPOLYESTERS; CRYSTALLIZABILITY; E-MODULUS; FTIR; MECHANICAL AND THERMAL PROPERTIES; MELTING ENTHALPY; MORPHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PHASE ARRANGEMENT; PHYSICOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; POLY LACTIDE; POLYAMIDE 6; SOLVENT EXTRACTION METHODS; STRESS-STRAIN ANALYSIS; WATER UPTAKE;

BLENDING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ENTHALPY; ESTERS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MELTING; POLYMER BLENDS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 84862517911     PISSN: 00222348     EISSN: 1525609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222348.2011.610265     Document Type: Article

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