Degradation Kinetics of Polymers in Solution: Dynamics of Molecular Weight Distributions

AIChE Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 802-810

  McCoy, Benjamin J ^a   Madras, Giridhar ^a  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POLYMERIZATION; REACTION KINETICS;

CHAIN END DEPOLYMERIZATION; MIDPOINT CHAIN SCISSION; RANDOM CHAIN SCISSION;

POLYMERS;

EID: 0031096373     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690430325     Document Type: Article

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