Kinetic Reaction Analysis of Gelation: Investigations of Random Step-Growth and Chain-Initiated Resins

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1360-1372

  Robbing, D J ^a   Zhu, Q ^a   Timm, D C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION EFFECTS; CROSSLINKING; GELATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; REACTION KINETICS;

GEL-STRUCTURAL PARAMETERS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 0031119414     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie960461m     Document Type: Article

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