Interfacial coarsening of ternary polymer blends with partial and complete wetting structures

Polymer

Volumn 54, Issue 25, 2013, Pages 6739-6751

  Ravati, Sepehr ^a   Favis, Basil D ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Canada)

Author keywords

Morphology; Partial wetting; Ternary polymer blend

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CAPILLARITY; COARSENING; DROPS; LACTIC ACID; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE INTERFACES; TERNARY SYSTEMS; WETTING;

CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; INTER-DROPLET DISTANCE; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MULTIPHASE POLYMER SYSTEMS; PARTIAL WETTING; POLYBUTYLENE SUCCINATE; SURFACE-TO-VOLUME RATIO; TERNARY POLYMER BLENDS;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 84888006277     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2013.10.009     Document Type: Article

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