Distribution Kinetics of Radical Mechanisms: Reversible Polymer Decomposition

AIChE Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 3205-3214

  Kodera, Yoichi ^a,b   McCoy, Benjamin J ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; DECOMPOSITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMERS; PYROLYSIS;

BOND SCISSION REACTIONS; DEPOLYMERIZATION; THERMOLYSIS;

REACTION KINETICS;

EID: 0031373354     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690431208     Document Type: Article

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