Understanding the effect of silica nanoparticles and exfoliated graphite nanoplatelets on the crystallization behavior of isotactic polypropylene

Polymer Engineering and Science

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 672-680

  Pedrazzoli, Diego ^a,b   Pegoretti, Alessandro ^a   Kalaitzidou, Kyriaki ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FILLERS; GRAPHITE; INJECTION MOLDING; ISOTHERMS; RECRYSTALLIZATION (METALLURGY); SILICA NANOPARTICLES; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTALLIZATION BEHAVIOR; CRYSTALLIZATION RATES; EXFOLIATED GRAPHITE NANOPLATELETS; ISOTACTIC POLYPROPYLENE; ISOTHERMAL CRYSTALLIZATION; NANOFILLER; NANOPLATELET; NUCLEATING AGENTS; RECRYSTALLISATION; SILICA NANOPARTICLES;

POLYPROPYLENES;

EID: 84923176476     PISSN: 00323888     EISSN: 15482634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pen.23941     Document Type: Article

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