Development of thermoplastic elastomers with improved elastic properties based on semicrystalline block copolymers

In this work the synthesis and characterization of two novel types of thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) is described. The first type comprises multiblock copoly(ether ester)s with semicrystalline hard segments and triblock copolymer soft segments. The second class of investigated TPEs are systems based on ABA triblock copolymers with two glassy end blocks and ABC triblock copolymers with one or two semicrystalline end blocks. The motivation of this work is the development of TPEs with improved elastic properties compared to commercially available systems.SIGLEAvailable from: http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekDEGerman