More dominant shear flow effect assisted by added carbon nanotubes on crystallization kinetics of isotactic polypropylene in nanocomposites

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1364-1375

  Wang, Junyang ^a   Yang, Jingjing ^a   Deng, Liang ^a   Fang, Huagao ^b   Zhang, Yaqiong ^a   Wang, Zhigang ^a  

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

^b HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Nucleation density; Rheology; Shear induced crystallization; Spherulitic growth rate

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FLOW GRAPHS; KINETICS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NUCLEATION; POLYPROPYLENES; RHEOLOGY; RHEOMETERS; SHEAR DEFORMATION; YARN;

ISOTACTIC POLY(PROPYLENE) (IPP); ISOTACTIC POLYPROPYLENE; NUCLEATION DENSITIES; POLARIZED OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; QUIESCENT CONDITIONS; RHEOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS; SHEAR-INDUCED CRYSTALLIZATION; SPHERULITIC GROWTH RATE;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 84921530295     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am507938s     Document Type: Article

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