A kinetic model for evaluating the degree of polymerization of a branched polymer produced in emulsion is developed. Only chain branching occurring through chain transfer to polymer has been considered. The model accounts for chain compartmentalization and, when coupled to a model able to describe t
Kinetics of long-chain branching in emulsion polymerization: 2. Vinyl acetate polymerization
โ Scribed by Hidetaka Tobita
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 689 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0032-3861
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