Linear and nonlinear rheological behavior and crystallization of semicrystalline poly(styrene)-poly(l-lactide) block copolymers

European Polymer Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2704-2720

  Malek, A ^a   Dingenouts, N ^a   Beskers, T F ^a,b   Fehrenbacher, U ^c   Barner, L ^d   Wilhelm, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b Polymer Standards Service GmbH   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY ICT   (Germany)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Block copolymer; Crystallization; Morphology; Rheology

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION PROCESS; DEGREE OF ORIENTATION; LAMELLAR MICROSTRUCTURE; LARGE AMPLITUDE OSCILLATORY SHEAR; NON-LINEARITY PARAMETER; RHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIORS; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS; ELASTICITY; EXPERIMENTS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORPHOLOGY; RHEOLOGY; STYRENE;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 84881371750     PISSN: 00143057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2013.05.031     Document Type: Article

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