Material properties affecting extrusion foaming

Polymeric Foams: Mechanisms and Materials

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 111-138

  Zhang, Q ^a   Xanthos, M ^b  

^a JOHNSON AND JOHNSON   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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