New understanding of morphology evolution of thermoplastic vulcanizate (TPV) during dynamic vulcanization

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 26-32

  Wu, Hanguang ^a   Tian, Ming ^a   Zhang, Liqun ^a   Tian, Hongchi ^a   Wu, Youping ^a   Ning, Nanying ^a   Chan, Tung W ^b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy (AFM); Dynamically vulcanized EPDM PP blends; Mechanism; Morphology evolution; Phase inversion; Rubber network

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DYNAMICS; ETHYLENE; MECHANISMS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES; PLASTICS; PROPYLENE; REINFORCED PLASTICS; THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS; VULCANIZATION;

DYNAMIC VULCANIZATION; DYNAMICALLY VULCANIZED; ELECTRONIC APPLICATION; ETHYLENE PROPYLENE DIENE MONOMER; MORPHOLOGY EVOLUTION; PHASE INVERSION; RUBBER NETWORKS; THERMOPLASTIC VULCANIZATES;

RUBBER;

EID: 84920267572     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sc500391g     Document Type: Article

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