Ultratough co-continuous PLA/PA11 by interfacially percolated poly(ether-b-amide)

Macromolecules

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 264-274

  Zolali, Ali M ^a   Heshmati, Vahid ^a   Favis, Basil D ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDES; DEFORMATION; ETHERS; POLYMER BLENDS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

BINARY SYSTEMS; COMBINED EFFECT; FRACTURE SURFACES; INTERFACIAL ADHESIONS; INTERFACIAL INTERACTION; MULTIPHASE POLYMER; NOTCHED IZOD IMPACT STRENGTH; TENSILE TOUGHNESS;

IMPACT STRENGTH;

EID: 85016432650     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: 15205835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b02310     Document Type: Article

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