Determination of plateau moduli and entanglement molecular weights of isotactic, syndiotactic, and atactic polypropylenes synthesized with metallocene catalysts

Macromolecules

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1335-1340

  Eckstein, A ^a   Suhm, J ^a   Friedrich, C ^a   Maier, R D ^a   Sassmannshausen, J ^b   Bochmann, M ^b   Mulhaupt R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CONFORMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUMERICAL METHODS; ORGANOMETALLICS; RHEOMETERS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TEMPERATURE; VISCOELASTICITY;

METALLOCENE CATALYSTS; OSCILLATORY RHEOMETRY; PLATEAU MODULI; STEREOREGULARITY;

POLYPROPYLENES;

EID: 0032003918     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma971270d     Document Type: Article

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