Comparison study on the heterogeneous nucleation of isotactic polypropylene by its own fiber and α nucleating agents

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 52, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 4772-4778

  Quan, Yannan ^a   Li, Huihui ^a   Yan, Shouke ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; ISOTACTIC POLY(PROPYLENE) (IPP); ISOTACTIC POLYPROPYLENE; MELT CRYSTALLIZATION; STRUCTURE SIMILARITY; TRANSCRYSTALLINE LAYERS;

FIBERS; NUCLEATION;

POLYPROPYLENES;

EID: 84875792806     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie303200z     Document Type: Article

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