Differential Polymorphic Transformation Behavior of Polybutene-1 with Multiple Isotactic Sequences
- Corresponding author: Hua-Rong Nie, niehuar@qust.edu.cn Ai-Hua He, ahhe@qust.edu.cn;aihuahe@iccas.ac.cn
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Ya-Ping Ma, Wei-Ping Zheng, Chen-Guang Liu, Hua-Feng Shao, Hua-Rong Nie, Ai-Hua He. Differential Polymorphic Transformation Behavior of Polybutene-1 with Multiple Isotactic Sequences[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science,
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10.1007/s10118-020-2337-6
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