Thermorheologically complex self-seeded melts of propylene-ethylene copolymers

Macromolecules

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 642-651

  Sangroniz, Leire ^a   Cavallo, Dario ^c   Santamaria, Antxon ^a   Müller, Alejandro J ^a,b   Alamo, Rufina G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^d FAMU FSU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ETHYLENE; MELTING POINT; ORGANOMETALLICS; PROPYLENE;

ETHYLENE COPOLYMER; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; NUCLEATION EFFECT; RECRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS; RHEOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS; SEMI-CRYSTALLINE POLYMER; TEMPERATURE REGIONS; TIME-TEMPERATURE SUPERPOSITION PRINCIPLES;

NUCLEATION;

EID: 85015166435     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: 15205835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b02392     Document Type: Article

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