Manipulation of Competitive Growth for Particle Size Control in Emulsion Polymerization

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 3252-3263

  Liotta, Vincenzo ^a   Georgakis, Christos ^a   Sudol, E David ^a   El Aasser, Mohamed S ^a  

^a Iacocca Hall ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; EMULSION POLYMERIZATION; GROWTH (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

BIDISPERSE SYSTEM;

POLYSTYRENES;

EID: 0031197679     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie960643g     Document Type: Article

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