Compounding and melt strengthening of poly (lactic acid): Shear and elongation rheological investigations for forming process

Key Engineering Materials

Volumn 554-557, Issue , 2013, Pages 1751-1756

  Mallet, Benoit ^a   Lamnawar, Khalid ^b   Maazouz, Abderrahim ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c HASSAN II ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Blown processing; Chain extension and branching; Forming process; Poly (lactic acid); Rheology

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS; BIODEGRADATION; BIOMECHANICS; BIOPOLYMERS; ELASTICITY; LACTIC ACID; PLASTICIZERS; REINFORCED PLASTICS; RHEOLOGY; SOLVENTS;

CHAIN EXTENSION; EXTENSIONAL PROPERTIES; INDUCED CRYSTALLIZATION; LINEAR VISCOELASTICITY; POLY LACTIC ACID; SOLUTION VISCOSIMETRY; STERIC EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; THERMOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

EXTRUSION;

EID: 84880562914     PISSN: 10139826     EISSN: 16629795     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.554-557.1751     Document Type: Conference Paper

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