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Yvonne A. Akpalu

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, United States 
Area:
Physical Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry
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Akpalu, Yvonne A, Competition between phase separation and crystallization in polyolefin blends (1998). Doctoral Dissertations Available from Proquest. AAI9823713.
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9823713

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Parents

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Murugappan Muthukumar grad student 1998 U Mass Amherst (E-Tree)
 (Competition between phase separation and crystallization in polyolefin blends.)
Richard Stephen Stein grad student 1998 U Mass Amherst

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Zhicheng Xiao grad student 2008 RPI
Yuping Xie grad student 2008 RPI
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Akpalu YA. (2010) Scattering from polymers Polymer Reviews. 50: 1-13
Xie Y, Kohls D, Noda I, et al. (2009) Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) nanocomposites with optimal mechanical properties Polymer. 50: 4656-4670
Xiao Z, Li Y, Akpalu YA. (2009) Enabling controlled dispersion in polyethylene nanocomposites using small-angle scattering Polymer Composites. 30: 559-568
Akpalu YA, Peng P. (2008) Probing the melt miscibility of a commercial polyethylene blend by small-angle light scattering Materials and Manufacturing Processes. 23: 269-276
Xie Y, Noda I, Akpalu YA. (2008) Influence of cooling rate on the thermal behavior and solid-state morphologies of polyhydroxyalkanoates Journal of Applied Polymer Science. 109: 2259-2268
Xiao Z, Akpalu YA. (2007) New insights into the characteristics of early stage crystallization of a polyethylene Polymer. 48: 5388-5397
Xiao Z, Ilavsky J, Long GG, et al. (2007) How do orientation fluctuations evolve to crystals? Lecture Notes in Physics. 714: 117-132
Xie Y, Caines A, Carroll J, et al. (2007) Advancing multiscale modeling prediction of mechanical properties of polyhydroxyalkanoates Aiche Annual Meeting, Conference Proceedings
Xiao Z, Li Y, Ma D, et al. (2006) Probing the use of small-angle light scattering for characterizing structure of titanium dioxide/low-density polyethylene nanocomposites Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics. 44: 1084-1095
Ma D, Akpalu YA, Li Y, et al. (2005) Effect of titania nanoparticles on the morphology of low density polyethylene Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics. 43: 488-497
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