TIT# Condensation thermoplastic elastomers under load: Methodological
     studies of nanostructure evolution by X-ray scattering
AUT# Stribeck, N.
SOU# <incollection> booktitle | Condensation Thermoplastic Elastomers
     editor | Fakirov, Stoyko
     publisher | Wiley-VCH
     address | Weinheim
     year | 2003
     chapter | 3
     pages | 1-30
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ABS# Elastic at room temperature and fusible. This pair of properties
     characterizing thermoplastic elastomers (TPE) is caused from a process
     of phase separation on the nanometer scale taking place whenever the
     polymer is cooled from the melt. Size, shape and perfection of the
     domains is affacted by variation of processing parameters. However,
     the nanostructure is not only altered during manufacturing. Even in
     service it responds to applied load, and materials properties change.
     X-ray methods are well-suited to monitor nanostructure evolution during
     processing. There is a considerable progress in instrumentation, but
     a considerable backlog what the effort on method development is
     concerned. The aim of this contribution is not only to illustrate X-ray
     methods that may be suitable for the investigation of a special class
     of thermoplastic elastomers, but also to turn the readers attention to
     the perspectives of an advanced analysis of scattering data.