Influence of grafting density of diblock copolymers on interfacial assembly behavior and interfacial shear strength of glass fiber/polystyrene composites

Composite Interfaces

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 701-714

  Shen, Tao ^a   Zhou, Xiaodong ^a   Lin, Qunfang ^a  

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

Author keywords

assembly behavior; grafting density; hydroxyl terminated diblock copolymer; interface adhesion; Macromolecular coupling agent; polymer brush

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMER BRUSHES; DOMAIN MORPHOLOGY; FIBER INTERFACE; FIBER SURFACE; GRAFTING DENSITIES; GRAFTING DENSITY; HYDROXYL-TERMINATED; INTERFACE ADHESION; INTERFACE SHEAR STRENGTH; INTERFACIAL ADHESIONS; INTERFACIAL ASSEMBLY; INTERFACIAL SHEAR STRENGTH; POLYMER BRUSH; POLYMERIZATION DEGREE;

ADHESION; ATOM TRANSFER RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; BRUSHES; COUPLING AGENTS; GLASS FIBERS; MACROMOLECULES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MONOLAYERS; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYMERIZATION; POLYSTYRENES; STYRENE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

GRAFTING (CHEMICAL);

EID: 84863243482     PISSN: 09276440     EISSN: 15685543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855412X626270     Document Type: Article

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