Crystallization of double crystalline block copolymer/crystalline homopolymer blends: 2. crystallization behavior

Polymer Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 556-563

  Gondo, Satoru ^a   Osawa, Satoshi ^a   Marubayashi, Hironori ^a   Nojima, Shuichi ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CRYSTALLINITY; CRYSTALLIZATION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; X RAY SCATTERING;

CRYSTALLIZATION BEHAVIOR; HOMOPOLYMER BLENDS; ISOTHERMAL CRYSTALLIZATION; LAMELLAR CRYSTALS; LAMELLAR MORPHOLOGY; MICROPHASE SEPARATED; POLY (EPSILONCAPROLACTONE); SYNCHROTRON SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERINGS;

PLASTIC PRODUCTS;

EID: 84938583398     PISSN: 00323896     EISSN: 13490540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/pj.2015.33     Document Type: Article

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