Understanding in the morphology and tensile behavior of isotactic polypropylene cast films with different stereo-defect distribution

Journal of Polymer Research

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Kang, Jian ^a   Xiong, Bijin ^b   Liu, Dongming ^c   Cao, Ya ^a   Chen, Jinyao ^a   Yang, Feng ^a   Xiang, Ming ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Isotactic polypropylene; Morphology and orientation; Stereo defect distribution; Tensile behavior

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; POLYPROPYLENES; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ISOTACTIC POLYPROPYLENE; NUCLEATED LAMELLAR STRUCTURE; PLASTIC DEFORMATION BEHAVIOR; SCANNING ELECTRONIC MICROSCOPY (SEM); SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; STEREO-DEFECT DISTRIBUTIONS; TENSILE BEHAVIORS; WIDE ANGLE XRAY DIFFRACTION;

MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 84901553939     PISSN: 10229760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10965-014-0485-5     Document Type: Article

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