Frontal Polymerization

Nonlinear Dynamics with Polymers: Fundamentals, Methods and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 45-67

  Pojman, John A ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cure one demand; Free radical polymerization; Propagating front; Spin modes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885516868     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527632602.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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