Simulation of the intrinsic viscosity of hyperbranched polymers with varying topology. 1. Dendritic polymers built by sequential addition

Computational and Theoretical Polymer Science

Volumn 8, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 191-199

  Widmann, Albert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dendritic polymers; Sequential addition

Indexed keywords

ADDITION REACTIONS; CORRELATION METHODS; HYDROCARBONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MONOMERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SOLVENTS; VISCOSITY;

DENDRITIC POLYMERS; HYPERBRANCHED POLYMERS; INTRINSIC VISCOSITY; ROTATIONAL ISOMERIC STATE METROPOLIS MONTE CARLO METHOD;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 0031618499     PISSN: 10893156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1089-3156(98)00033-6     Document Type: Article

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