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Kinetic features of the nonisothermal oxidative degradation of ethylene vinyl acetate copolymers
Author(s) -
Ruban L. V.,
Sychugova O. V.,
Kolesnikova N. N.,
Zaikov G. E.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of applied polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-4628
pISSN - 0021-8995
DOI - 10.1002/app.13419
Subject(s) - copolymer , vinyl acetate , ethylene vinyl acetate , thermogravimetric analysis , ethylene , polymer chemistry , decomposition , degradation (telecommunications) , materials science , chemistry , organic chemistry , catalysis , polymer , telecommunications , computer science
Thermogravimetric analysis was used for a comparative investigation of the thermooxidative decomposition of ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) copolymers with different vinyl acetate (VA) group contents. There were two stages of mass loss in this process. It was revealed that the apparent activation energies were correlated with the content of VA groups in the EVA copolymers. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 91: 1958–1961, 2004