ISSN:
0021-8995
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Polymer and Materials Science
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
,
Physics
Notes:
The blending of two immiscible polymer samples can lead to spherical inclusions of one component in a matrix of the other component. The mechanical solid-state properties as well as the flow behavior of the m+lt depend on the size of the spheres in the blend. For that reason, the sphere-size distribution is of major interest. Information about this distribution is often obtained by analyzing thin slices of the blend with transmission electron microscopy. In that way, however, the sphere-size distribution itself is not obtained. The reconstruction of the sphere-size distribution is introduced as a stereological problem, well known in fields as metallurgy, biology, geology, and medicine. It is shown that the sphere-size distribution can be reconstructed using a regularization method as implemented in the program FTIKREG. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Additional Material:
8 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/app.1994.070530105
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