Description of extrudate swell for polymer nanocomposites

Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 386-400

  Wang, Kejian ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Capillary; Concentration shift factor; Extrudate swell; Nanocomposite

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY; EXTRUDATE SWELL; FILLER CONTENTS; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; OPTIMUM PROCESSING; POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE; QUANTITATIVE MODELING; SHIFT FACTORS;

FILLERS; POLYMER MELTS;

NANOCOMPOSITES;

EID: 84874957585     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma3010386     Document Type: Article

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