Biodegradability Characterization of Polymer Nanocomposites

Characterization Techniques for Polymer Nanocomposites

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 323-346

  Dean, Katherine M ^a   Sangwan, Parveen ^a   Way, Cameron ^a   Nikolic, Melissa A L ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Polarizing optical microscopy (POM); Polylactic acid (PLA); Respirometers; Spectroscopic; Starch Nanocomposites; Turbidity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883913937     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527654505.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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