Mechanism of Toughening in Rubber Toughened Polyolefin—A Review

Polymer - Plastics Technology and Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 462-473

  Panda, Bishnu P ^a   Mohanty, Smita ^a   Nayak, Sanjay K ^a  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF PLASTICS ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Critical particle distance; Particle size; Polyolefin; Rubber

Indexed keywords

PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE INTERFACES; POLYOLEFINS; SHEAR FLOW;

BIMODAL DISTRIBUTION; CRITICAL PARTICLE SIZE; INTERFACIAL ADHESIONS; MICRODEFORMATIONS; PARTICLE DISTANCE; TOUGHENING EFFECTS; TOUGHENING MECHANISMS; UNIFORM PARTICLE DISTRIBUTION;

RUBBER;

EID: 84926326357     PISSN: 03602559     EISSN: 15256111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03602559.2014.958777     Document Type: Article

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