A comprehensive simulator/database package for reviewing free-radical homopolymerizations

Journal of Macromolecular Science - Reviews in Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 199-404

  Gao, J ^a   Penlidis, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

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EID: 0001740265     PISSN: 07366574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15321799608015225     Document Type: Review

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