Poly(L-lactide) Materials with Balanced Mechanical Properties Prepared by Blending with PEG-mb-PPA Multiblock Copolymers

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 2773-2782

  Li, Ruoyun ^a   Wu, Linbo ^a   Li, Bo Geng ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; IMPACT STRENGTH; IMPACT TESTING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; TENSILE TESTING; TOUGHENING;

HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MELT BLENDING; MICROPHASES; MULTIBLOCK CO-POLYMERS; PERFORMANCE STABILITY; POLY-L-LACTIDE; SEM MICROGRAPHS; SYNERGISTIC EFFECT;

POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS;

EID: 85018466072     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.6b05046     Document Type: Article

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