The Gel Point as Reference State: A Simple Kinetic Model for Crosslinking Polybutadiene via Hydrosilation

Polymer Gels and Networks

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 69-94

  De Rosa, Michael E ^a,c   Mours, Marian ^b   Winter, H Henning ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CROSSLINKING; CURING; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GELATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; MOLECULES; REACTION KINETICS;

BIFUNCTIONAL AROMATIC SILANE BISDIMETHYLSILYL BENZENE; CROSSLINKING POLYBUTADIENE; GEL POINT; HYDROSILATION;

POLYBUTADIENES;

EID: 0031077566     PISSN: 09667822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-7822(96)00033-0     Document Type: Article

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