Blends of linear and long-chain branched poly(l -lactide)s with high melt strength and fast crystallization rate

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 51, Issue 30, 2012, Pages 10088-10099

  Wang, Liangyan ^a,b   Jing, Xiabin ^a   Cheng, Haibo ^a,b   Hu, Xiuli ^a   Yang, Lixin ^a,b   Huang, Yubin ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRANCH POINTS; CRYSTALLINITIES; CRYSTALLIZATION PROPERTIES; CRYSTALLIZATION RATES; FOAMING ABILITY; HIGH MELT STRENGTHS; HYDROXYL-TERMINATED; LACTIDES; MELT ELASTICITY; NATUREWORKS; NUCLEATING AGENTS; POLY LACTIDE; PREPOLYMERS; ZERO SHEAR VISCOSITY;

ELASTICITY; STRAIN HARDENING;

POLYPROPYLENES;

EID: 84864458726     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie300526u     Document Type: Article

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