A Pulsed-Laser Study of Penultimate Copolymerization Propagation Kinetics for Methyl Methacrylate/n-Butyl Acrylate

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1103-1113

  Hutchinson, Robin A ^a   McMinn, John H ^a   Paquet Jr , Donald A ^a   Beuermann, Sabine ^a,b   Jackson, Christian ^a  

^a DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRYLICS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; REACTION KINETICS;

LASER POLYMERIZATION;

COPOLYMERIZATION;

EID: 0031122046     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie9604031     Document Type: Article

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