Competitive crystallization of a propylene/ethylene random copolymer filled with a β-nucleating agent and multi-walled carbon nanotubes. conventional and ultrafast DSC study

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 117, Issue 47, 2013, Pages 14875-14884

  Papageorgiou, Dimitrios G ^a   Papageorgiou, George Z ^a   Zhuravlev, Evgeny ^b   Bikiaris, Dimitrios ^a   Schick, Christoph ^b   Chrissafis, Konstantinos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION TENDENCY; DYNAMIC CONDITION; FAST-SCANNING CALORIMETRIES; HIGH COOLING RATES; ISOTHERMAL CONDITIONS; NANOCOMPOSITE SAMPLES; NUCLEATING AGENTS; POLYMERIC MATRICES;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CALCIUM; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ISOTHERMS;

NANOCOMPOSITES;

EID: 84891363273     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp409395h     Document Type: Article

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