New insight into lamellar branching of β-nucleated isotactic polypropylene upon melt-stretching: WAXD and SAXS study

Journal of Materials Science

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 599-604

  Liu, Zhongzhu ^a   Liu, Xianhu ^b   Zheng, Guoqiang ^a   Dai, Kun ^a   Liu, Chuntai ^a   Shen, Changyu ^a  

^a ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSTRUCTURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY SCATTERING;

ISOTACTIC POLY(PROPYLENE) (IPP); ISOTACTIC POLYPROPYLENE; NUCLEATING AGENTS; ORIENTED STRUCTURE; POLYMER PROCESSING; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; STRETCHING RATES; WIDE-ANGLE X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

POLYPROPYLENES;

EID: 84911988480     PISSN: 00222461     EISSN: 15734803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10853-014-8618-0     Document Type: Article

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