Waste rubber recycling

Current Topics in Elastomers Research

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1043-1066

  Srinivasan, Anandhan ^a   Shanmugharaj, A M ^b   Bhowmick, Anil K ^c  

^a AIMST UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

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