Morphological and rheological properties of PET/clay nanocomposites

Rheologica Acta

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 59-74

  Ghanbari, Abbas ^a   Heuzey, Marie Claude ^a   Carreau, Pierre J ^b   Ton That, Minh Tan ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Morphology; Nanocomposites; Organoclay; Polyethylene terephthalate; Rheology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872348551     PISSN: 00354511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00397-012-0667-1     Document Type: Article

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