Relationship between the morphology of nanostructured unsaturated polyesters modified with PEO-b-PPO-b-PEO triblock copolymer and their optical and mechanical properties

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3563-3571

  Builes, Daniel H ^a,b   Hernandez, Hugo ^b   Mondragon, Iñaki ^a   Tercjak, Agnieszka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b Andercol SA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPHILICS; CRITICAL STRESS INTENSITY FACTOR; ETHYLENE OXIDES; NANO-STRUCTURED; NANOSTRUCTURED THERMOSETS; OPTICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PROPYLENE OXIDE; UNSATURATED POLYESTER; UNSATURATED POLYESTER RESIN;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CURING; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ESTERS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MIXTURES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGY; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; POLYMER BLENDS; PROPYLENE; RESINS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

THERMOSETS;

EID: 84874165254     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp3097617     Document Type: Article

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