Reactive processing of ethylene-vinyl acetate rubber/polyamide blends via a dynamic transesterification reaction

Polymer Bulletin

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1505-1521

  Wu, Wenjing ^a   Wan, Chaoying ^b   Wang, Shifeng ^a   Zhang, Yong ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamic vulcanization; Ethylene vinyl acetate rubber; Polyamide; Thermoplastic elastomer; Transesterification

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CROSSLINKING; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ETHYLENE; HEAT RESISTANCE; PEROXIDES; POLYAMIDES; RATE CONSTANTS; TENSILE STRENGTH; THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS; TRANSESTERIFICATION; VULCANIZATION;

AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS; CROSS-LINK DENSITIES; CROSSLINKING REACTION; DYNAMIC VULCANIZATION; ETHYLENE-VINYL ACETATE; HIGH TEMPERATURE DYNAMICS; PEROXIDE-INITIATED CROSSLINKING; TRANSESTERIFICATION REACTION;

RUBBER;

EID: 84901195453     PISSN: 01700839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00289-014-1138-x     Document Type: Article

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