Study on crystallization kinetics of partially melting polyethylene aiming to improve mechanical properties

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 53, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 6211-6220

  Zheng, Haili ^a   Wang, Bo ^a   Zheng, Guoqiang ^a   Wang, Zhigang ^b   Dai, Kun ^a   Liu, Chuntai ^a   Shen, Changyu ^a,c  

^a ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MELTING; NUCLEATION; POLYMER MELTS; TENSILE STRENGTH; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

HIGH PERFORMANCE POLYMER; KINETICALLY ENHANCED; LAMELLAR THICKNESS; MICROSTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; POLYMER PROCESSING; QUANTITATIVE CALCULATION; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; WIDE-ANGLE X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENES;

EID: 84898428989     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie500007n     Document Type: Article

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