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Kinetic Modeling of Non‐Linear Polymerization
Author(s) -
Costa Mário Rui P. F. N.,
Dias Rolando C. S.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
macromolecular symposia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.257
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-3900
pISSN - 1022-1360
DOI - 10.1002/masy.200651108
Subject(s) - radius of gyration , polymer , polymerization , kinetic chain length , polymer chemistry , chain transfer , radical polymerization , chain (unit) , materials science , reactivity (psychology) , gyration , linear polymer , living polymerization , kinetic energy , thermodynamics , polymer science , computational chemistry , chemistry , physics , classical mechanics , mathematics , composite material , geometry , alternative medicine , pathology , astronomy , medicine
Recent developments of a method based upon population balances of generating functions of polymer chain length distributions (CLD) are presented. The calculation of the CLD and how to take into account chain length dependent reactivity are discussed. Prediction of polymer properties is also possible but only easily done for the average molecular radius of gyration; some results are presented for a radical polymerization including transfer to polymer and propagation with terminal double bonds.