Assessment of changes due to accelerated weathering of low-density polyethylene/feather composites

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 51, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 7279-7286

  Spiridon, Iuliana ^a   Paduraru, Oana Maria ^a   Rudowski, Marek ^b   Kozlowski, Marek ^b   Darie, Raluca Nicoleta ^a  

^a PETRU PONI INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY   (Romania)

^b WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED WEATHERING; AGING TIME; CRYSTALLINITIES; FEATHER FIBERS; MECHANICAL TESTS; OXYGEN PERMEABILITY; PROPERTY CHANGES; PSEUDOPLASTIC; SURFACE DEGRADATION; THERMAL TESTS; UV EXPOSURE; VINYL GROUP; VISCOELASTIC BEHAVIORS;

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; OXYGEN PERMEABLE MEMBRANES;

WEATHERING;

EID: 84866922314     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie300738d     Document Type: Article

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