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Polystyrene, Warm and Cool

JUL 01, 1950

DOI: 10.1063/1.3066946

P. J. Flory

This investigation represents an attempt to understand why noncrystalline rubber‐like polymers suddenly lose their flexibility and become brittle when cooled to a particular temperature, and conversely why an amorphous plastic such as polystyrene when heated to a particular temperature suddenly becomes either flexible and rubbery or fluid.

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Volume 3, Number 7

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