Biopolymer blends based on poly (lactic acid): Shear and elongation rheology/structure/blowing process relationships

Polymers

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 939-962

  Al Itry, Racha ^a,b   Lamnawar, Khalid ^a,b   Maazouz, Abderrahim ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c HASSAN II ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Biopolymers; Blown film extrusion; Crystallization; Shear and elongation rheology; Structural modification; Thermo mechanical behavior

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; BIOPOLYMERS; BLENDING; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELASTICITY; ELONGATION; EXTRUSION; LACTIC ACID; TENSILE STRENGTH;

BLOWN FILM EXTRUSION; CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE; DEFORMED DROP RETRACTION METHODS; ELONGATION RHEOLOGIES; ELONGATION VISCOSITY; STRUCTURAL MODIFICATIONS; THERMO-MECHANICAL BEHAVIORS; THERMOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 84930640846     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/polym7050939     Document Type: Article

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